The Cle Elum City Council passed an emergency ordinance at a special meeting late last week to put a six-month timeout on applications for data centers or high-intensity computing facilities. The ban ...

The artificial intelligence boom in the United States is being matched by a data center building boom. There are more than 3,000 data centers in the U.S. and another 1,500 in development, according to ...

Video above: Lawmakers express concerns that data centers will raise electric bills in May 2026. (NEXSTAR) — Data centers have become a flash point across the U.S., with communities from a small ...

To learn more about the CNBC CFO Council, visit cnbccouncils.com/cfo New York State Governor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday signed an executive order barring the ...

Microsoft MSFT0.03%increase; up pointing triangle, Google and Amazon AMZN 0.82%increase; up pointing triangle are among the tech companies spending an estimated $1 trillion on AI infrastructure this ...

EU eyes minimum efficiency rules for data centres Capacity set to double by 2030, lifting power demand Sustainability label planned amid energy concerns BRUSSELS, June 3 (Reuters) - The European Union ...

The neighbors of a data center in Georgia are steaming after they discovered the facility had sucked up nearly 30 million gallons of water — without initially paying for it. Outrage started bubbling ...

BLACKFOOT, Idaho — You might think operating a farm just takes water, balanced soil and machinery like a tractor or combine, but electricity also serves as a massive piece to the operation.

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. As ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

What really happens after you hit enter on that AI prompt? WSJ’s Joanna Stern heads inside a data center to trace the journey and then grills up some steaks to show just how much energy it takes to ...

A federal judge in Massachusetts on Tuesday blocked a Trump administration policy that terminated temporary parole status for hundreds of thousands of migrants who were granted the benefit after they ...