Data centers dominated local news throughout 2025, ushering in an unprecedented onslaught of new development and packing public meetings with standing-room-only crowds of concerned residents. Only one ...

There was a time when most Americans had little to no knowledge about their local data center. Long the invisible but critical backbone of the internet, server farms have rarely been a point of ...

Tech executives like Altman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison are fully bought in to the idea that the future of the American (and possibly ...

AI data centers require incredible amounts of energy to run. NPR's Planet Money investigates how that demand for power might affect your electric bills. Tech companies invested hundreds of billions of ...

O data, where art thou? Apparently, in the wrong place. The large majority of AI data centers have been constructed in locations that are not ideal for efficiency or environmental protection. And ...

Dec. 29 (UPI) --The proliferation of data centers in the United States continued to accelerate in 2025 but experts, developers and utility companies are challenged with projecting the energy needs of ...

Microsoft Corp. is building another data center in Medina County, where the technology giant has amassed more than 1,000 acres. The Redmond, Wash.-based technology corporation plans to build a ...

The AI boom currently underpinning the United States economy has led to a rapid expansion of data centers. These facilities are necessary for processing AI calculations, especially for cloud services, ...

The two demo satellites that Google and Planet are developing for Project Suncatcher are versions of Planet’s new Owl line of imaging satellites. Credit: Planet WASHINGTON — Planet, a company best ...

Baiju Bhatt, billionaire cofounder of retail brokerage Robinhood, started his company Aetherflux in 2024 to use solar panels in space to collect sunlight and beam that energy back down to Earth to use ...

These companies will play a crucial role in supporting the AI era. The AI revolution is driving nearly insatiable demand for hardware like high-performance GPUs, CPUs, networking equipment, and ...

A simple story has taken hold in American politics: Big Tech is consuming vast amounts of electricity to power artificial intelligence, and ordinary households are paying the price. It's a tidy ...