Companies know how to build data centers that won’t alienate communities. But their desire to build these AI-processing plants faster than ever has resulted in sprawling, polluting, noisy, thirsty ...

The company is testing robots that can swap cables, reset servers, and take on other tasks performed by technicians, fueling concerns among some workers that their jobs could be at risk. Meta is using ...

Data centers, the gigantic buildings that house the computing power behind the artificial intelligence boom, are wildly unpopular. A recent Gallup poll found that 7 in 10 Americans oppose one being ...

Loudoun County, Va., hosts more than 250 data centers that bring in huge tax revenues. But some officials and residents worry the county has become too dependent on that cash. Loudoun County, Va., ...

A $15 million aquatic center with a six-lane pool, waterslides and a lazy river opened in Quincy, Washington, a few weeks ago. It’s part of the public parks splurge in the city, which will culminate ...

Data centers are increasingly popping up next to American homes, and they're changing neighborhoods in the process. The number of large data centers over 50 megawatts has increased sevenfold from 2018 ...

The companies that build and run data centers are on the losing end of a populist backlash — and they’re struggling to respond. Fears that the server-packed data hubs will drive up electricity prices, ...

This past April spending on data center construction surpassed $50 billion, marking the first time more was spent in the US on building cloud infrastructure than new public transportation. It would be ...

The Department of Defense’s leasing of land to private companies for artificial intelligence server farms is drawing bipartisan scrutiny from lawmakers worried about the impact on military ...

A power line went down outside of Washington, DC, this week. Normally, the grid would only need a few seconds to recover from such an event. But this one took more than 10 minutes because data centers ...

Just before 8 a.m. Wednesday, electricity flickered on and off for about 10 minutes. An engineer’s data says it happened throughout the Eastern half of the U.S., from Chicago, to Boston and Miami. He ...

As data centers spark local resistance movements across the state and figure prominently on the campaign trail this year, developers remain keen on Michigan. The proposals for large warehouses full of ...