Communities often celebrate data center openings. But for all the benefits state and local officials tout for the massive facilities, they also bring their share of problems — including gobbling up ...

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 ...

A developer’s plan to put a data center in rural southeast Fort Worth is being met with opposition from a longtime resident and business owner, as well as an academic researcher who fears further loss ...

Since developers revealed the initial details of a proposed data center at the former site of the Cheswick Generating Station in Springdale in August, the community has come armed with questions about ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social Saturday that he was directing Secretary ...

Reliance on fossil fuels is almost unavoidable — at least for now. By Evan Gorelick It’s been a big week for A.I. data centers. That means it’s also been a big week for coal and natural gas. Nvidia ...

California lawmakers have sent Gov. Newsom two bills on data centers as the facilities raise concerns of public safety. Measures that originally aimed to protect ratepayers from infrastructure costs ...

Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs has declined a request from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) seeking access to the state’s voter registration database, including sensitive personal ...

Indianapolis-based attorney Joe Calderon, who has represented Google and its data center proposal, announces the company’s intent to withdraw on Sept. 22, 2025. (IBJ photo/Taylor Wooten) Just before ...

President Donald Trump is pushing a federal show of force in U.S. cities and Houston finds itself sharing similar crime data with the places under Trump's scrutiny. Public concern for crime and the ...

In December 2024, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, announced plans to construct a four million square foot data center campus in Northeast Louisiana. The $10 billion AI ...