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 ...

A blank rectangle of a building sits next to a highway, facing an endless Wyoming prairie. It's painted the greenish-grayish-brown that Disneyland imagineers use on stuff they don't want people to ...

We are witnessing the rise of a completely new computing era. Within the next decade, a trillion-dollar-plus data center business is poised for transformation, powered by what we refer to as extreme ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...