Concern over facilities’ thirst for electricity, water is growing as the unprecedented infrastructure buildout to serve them ramps up. In 2022, Georgia Power projected its winter peak electricity ...

RENO, Nev. — On the western edge of Nevada, it’s hard not to think about water. The driest state in the country is often hit by droughts, but that hasn’t stopped developers from buying up ranches and ...

Astronomers just caught a rare glimpse of an interstellar comet as it zoomed past Mars. Images of the object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, were captured by two of the the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters -- ...

An Alabama community facing pushback from residents over a proposed data center has just made the path easier for other future data center projects. The Bessemer City Council voted Tuesday night in ...

The ginormous LED screen flashed as dignitaries celebrated inside a bare industrial warehouse serving as New Albany, Ohio's latest data center. "Water is for streams, not streaming," it beamed to ...

Tech firms are investing billions to build massive AI data centers across the U.S. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS — Tech giant Google has approached Linn County officials about a proposed data center ...

“It feels like we’re fighting an unwinnable battle that we didn’t sign up for,” said Beverly Morris, who lives near Meta's data center in Georgia David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty; Meta A massive ...

As central Ohio's data center industry keeps booming, critics often lament that the gigantic server warehouses directly employ only several dozen people. But while the number of employees collecting a ...

The industry believes AI will work its way into every corner of our lives, and so needs to build sufficient capacity to address that anticipated demand. But the hardware used to make AI work is so ...