The AI data center boom is reshaping economies while straining power grids, water supplies, and communities. Here’s the real cost behind AI’s rise.

xAI’s notorious data centers near Memphis, Tenn., are appropriately named Colossus 1 and Colossus 2. The supercomputers that ...

Utah’s headlong rush to build data centers to power the AI boom is likely to rely upon fossil fuels for the foreseeable ...

The vast amount of water required to cool the proposed facility would be more than 9.9 million gallons per year — or up to almost 20 million gallons — according to an applicat ...

Data centers have been a big topic over the past few years, especially in Indiana. There's been a push for more data centers in the Midwest, specifically AI data centers. We've seen several move ...

We’re starting to see the idea of Musk-owned orbital AI data clusters cohere into an actual plan.

Terrestrial data centers are so 2025. We're taking our large-scale compute infrastructure into orbit, baby! Or at least, that ...

Ohio Senate Democrats have introduced a raft of legislation aimed at reining in data centers. The bills would eliminate tax breaks, require developers cover infrastructure costs and impose greater ...

As massive facilities totaling millions of square feet spread across city edges, officials question strain on water, power ...

Big Tech is spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure. Here are the 10 largest AI data centers in the US, so you can ...

Tech firms are floating the idea of building data centers in space and tapping into the sun's energy to meet out-of-this-world power demands in a fierce artificial intelligence race.