Dominion Energy says its upcoming $11-a-month rate hike is driven by grid upgrades and inflation — not Virginia’s rapidly growing data-center industry. Critics note that Virginia hosts one of the ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — The two dozen or so nondescript gray, white and blue buildings lining Virginia State Route 625 could be large warehouses. But community activist Elena Schlossberg can identify them ...

Data center disconnections threaten grid stability, regulator says Grid operators face resistance from data centers on proposals for a fix Texas incidents highlight risks of sudden disconnections by ...

The first rule of data centers: Not all are created equal. When we’re talking about different types of data centers and their utilization, perhaps the most important distinction is between those that ...

Data centers contributed 4.7 million jobs to the US economy from 2017 to 2023, a PwC study says. Most of those jobs were attributed to "the multiplier effect," a standard and controversial model. Data ...

Each time you ask an AI chatbot to summarize a lengthy legal document or conjure up a cartoon squirrel wearing glasses, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: ...

The Minooka data center would take up to 340 acres, or slightly more than Chicago’s Grant Park. It would need a 700-megawatt supply of electricity, enough for half of Chicago’s households. For Ric ...

HOWELL TWP., MI — A Michigan community north of Ann Arbor is mobilizing around a proposed plan for a $1 billion data center campus to power artificial intelligence and other emerging computing ...

North Carolina is becoming home to an increasing number of data centers, which handle the data needed for cloud computing and artificial intelligence. But they also present challenges. McClatchy ...

This story has been updated with a statement from a state representative. SALINE TWP., MI — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday praised the upcoming OpenAI-backed data center in rural Washtenaw County, ...