A new policy guide from the nonprofit Public Citizen is intended to support the public sector with concrete recommendations on transparent data center projects that are respectful to residents.

A drone photo taken on Feb. 18, 2025 shows Hainan's commercial underwater intelligent computing cluster being lowered into the sea near Lingshui Li Autonomous County in south China's Hainan Province.

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 ...

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 ...

One of the most significant bills passed by the Kentucky General Assembly in 2025 was legislation giving massive tax breaks to data centers — the enormous and energy-guzzling facilities hosting ...

The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) means a rapid increase in data use and a new era of potential data center industry growth over the next two years and beyond. This shift marks the ...