Data centers are an economic boom in some areas and are behind the artificial intelligence economy. However, the cost to communities that host them is still in question.

The insatiable demand for data center power and materials is turning formerly marginal ideas into economical ones—from ...

MaC Venture Capital’s Marlon Nichols explores how the rapid growth of A.I. data centers is straining America’s power grid. As A.I. accelerates energy demand, the next wave of innovation will ...

Major institutions have backed it with billions since early 2025. The company employs over 120 people locally.

Texans from Waco to Harlingen are raising concerns over how much energy and water data centers are poised to use.

Meta is investing over $10B in a 1GW Indiana data center built to handle AI workloads and core services. Meta is breaking ...

Boston-based Vicinity Energy will help Damena Agonafer, a University of Maryland researcher, develop an alternative to heat pumps.

Journalism’s contraction put pressure on even those who survived. “When the rest of the news industry is being squeezed, it ...

Residents also oppose a data center the size of 18 Walmarts that is set to be built in pristine woodland outside Bessemer, Ala. “All this will be gone,” one said. The woodland around Bessemer, Ala., ...

Tech giants are in a heated race to build data centers and dominate the AI landscape. But America might not be ready for the energy demand. The country’s aging electrical grid could struggle to keep ...

Voter anger over surging electricity prices is spreading across the country and across partisan lines as energy-guzzling data centers put increasing strain on the power grid and ratepayers' wallets.

Surging demand for energy to power artificial intelligence (AI) data centers is reaching new heights as companies are pursuing plans to station data centers in space. Billionaire entrepreneurs Elon ...