When Amazon proposed building its Project Blue data center in Tucson, Arizona, the company faced intense pushback. Residents raised concerns about the enormous amounts of water and electricity that ...

Communities across the U.S. are concerned about the environmental impact and rising utility costs associated with new data centers. Local governments are enacting zoning ordinances to gain more ...

Microsoft is one of several companies hoping to build data centers in Indiana, like this one in Washington. Tech companies and governments could be doing more to reduce the environmental impact of AI ...

An environmental group is leading a call for Congress to place a moratorium on the construction of new data centers used to power artificial intelligence. More than 230 groups have signed on to a ...

The Trump administration’s plans to advance data centers and the energy to support them are sparking a legal backlash. Critics of data centers that power artificial intelligence are writing a playbook ...

Thanks in large part to the training and running of artificial-intelligence models, the amount of power California data centers are using is surging — as are related environmental and health effects, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The county seat of Santa Clara is touting its partnership with Pacific Gas & Electric, claiming the city is “the ...

More than 200 environmental organizations signed a letter to Congress supporting a national moratorium on the approval and construction of new data centers. The letter, sent Monday, highlights these ...

Drive in almost any direction from almost any American city, and soon enough you’ll arrive at a data center—a giant white box rising from graded earth, flanked by generators and fenced like a prison ...

A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built. An extensive new analysis looks ...

RICHMOND, Va.—Democrats gained trifecta control of Virginia state government Tuesday night as former congresswoman Abigail Spanberger trounced Republican Winsome Earle-Sears by 15 points in the ...

LEWIS CENTER, OHIO - JULY 24: Construction vehicles and equipment lay idle on July 24, 2025 in Lewis Center, Ohio. The COL5 will be a 480,000-square-foot AI data center with access to over 300 ...