Xcel Energy's (XEL) growth in AI data centers and wildfire litigation impacts. I rate XEL a HOLD due to ongoing legal risks and limited upside. See more.

A purported quantum data center, backed by IDR 6.5 trillion ($400m) in investment, will be built in Indonesia. The facility, dubbed a ‘Quantum AI Data Center,’ will supposedly be Asia’s first. Details about size,

National and state political leaders are rushing to regulate and incentivize the rapidly growing data center industry.

But as more data centers are built to accommodate AI and other data-intensive processes, energy demand is expected to skyrocket. A single hyperscale data center can use the same amount of energy as a large city, and the stress this is placing on local power grids is expected to drive up energy costs for residents in Virginia—and around the country.

Storage company DataDirect Networks (DDN) will supply its AI data platform to European data center business Polarise. Polarise was founded last year by former Northern Data executives, with a plan to build "sovereign European AI factories."

Amazon.com Inc.’s carbon emissions rose for the first time in three years in 2024, driven by data center construction and fuel consumption by its delivery providers. The worlds

(Reuters) -CoreWeave plans to spend up to $6 billion on building a new artificial intelligence data center in Pennsylvania, as part of a push by U.S. President Donald Trump to maintain the country’s edge in the booming technology sector, the company said on Tuesday.

The Shapiro administration is slashing red tape and has given developers the green light so Pennsylvania will move at the “speed of business” and become a global competitor in AI. Not everyone is happy about it.