ROCKDALE COUNTY, Ga. — Neighbors say that while they were able to come to terms with having one data center in Rockdale County, they are having to process the potential of having a second one. An ...

Tech companies, including Microsoft and Meta, have been falling in love with natural gas lately, rushing to build power plants fed by the fossil fuel to drive their data centers. But their embrace ...

The site where Google has proposed building a 545-acre data center sits just north of Palo next to acres of solar panels and the Duane Arnold Energy Center. Residents wonder why Palo has suddenly ...

The US federal government’s central energy information agency is planning to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use, according to a letter seen by WIRED.

The United States has more than 3,000 operational data centers, and that number is expected to grow substantially in the years ahead. More than 1,500 new data centers are in various stages of ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — State senators have introduced three bills in the past two weeks geared toward limiting data center construction in Ohio. With over 200 data centers and counting, Ohio has ...

A proposed Google data center in Michigan is notable for its use of renewable energy and its ability to ramp down power use during periods of high demand. The plan, announced last week, is a ...

John Steinbach was shocked to receive a $281 electricity bill in January 2026—a huge spike from the roughly $100 he’d paid the previous month. “It’s just so far beyond any bill that I’ve ever had,” he ...

I was early to the generative AI wave in higher education: I was among the first professors who teach writing to publish in an academic journal about generative AI and critical thinking, and I am now ...

Data centres use huge amounts of energy and chips are in high demand – could brain cells be the answer? Australia-based start-up Cortical Labs has announced it is building two “biological” data ...

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