2025 revealed how data center outages, from fires and mechanical failures to hyperscale cloud region events, can cascade ...

Communities across the U.S. are concerned about the environmental impact and rising utility costs associated with new data centers. Local governments are enacting zoning ordinances to gain more ...

The rise of artificial intelligence is driving a surge of data center construction across the United States, and rural communities are feeling the impact. Reading time 4 minutes Elena Schlossberg and ...

The data center as we know it is being reimagined as an “AI factory” – a power- and data-optimized plant that turns energy and information into intelligence at industrial scale. The tech stack is ...

Drive in almost any direction from almost any American city, and soon enough you’ll arrive at a data center—a giant white box rising from graded earth, flanked by generators and fenced like a prison ...

Grayslake is moving forward with potentially one of the largest single development projects in Lake County’s history, with a multi-billion-dollar data center campus that, if fully built out, would ...

The Trump administration’s plans to advance data centers and the energy to support them are sparking a legal backlash. Critics of data centers that power artificial intelligence are writing a playbook ...

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The Trump administration wants to control how data centers connect to the power grid.

As the AI surge progresses, the most significant hurdle is unlikely to be the availability of chips or components. Instead, it will be electricity, cooling, and physical space. On our planet, data ...