The AI data center boom is reshaping economies while straining power grids, water supplies, and communities. Here’s the real cost behind AI’s rise.

The Arizona Republic used air quality records to estimate how much energy could be guzzled by data centers in Maricopa County ...

The three-member commission regulates Wisconsin’s utilities and power rates. A surge in data center proposals is putting agency decisions under new scrutiny.

The "very large customer" would use over 250 MW with a contract term of 10 years. For gas-only projects, the customer, or data center, would pay for 75% of the Bespoke Resource's costs, while other ...

The facilities are hitting an inflection point in Arizona. In some areas, they are met with grassroots resistance. In others, ...

They form the backbone of social media platforms, e-commerce sites and other technologies. They pay big tax bills but suck up energy and water.

Meta announced in November a new data center will be constructed in Beaver Dam, with an emphasis on water and energy ...

A viable multicloud solution must enforce uniform security, access controls and auditability across all clouds. Divergent ...

Despite many proposals, there is little consensus among governors, lawmakers and tech executives about exactly how much the companies behind data centers should pay for electricity. By Ivan Penn and ...

For Soledad Molina and her four children, the basics — light, heat, cooling, even a way to cook — are under constant threat. The 45-year-old Portland mother fell behind on her electricity bills last ...

Tech companies are building data centers as quickly as possible to run AI. These facilities are controviersial because they use copious amounts of electricity and might tax an electrical grid that in ...

Much of the U.S. east of the Rockies is snowbound and enduring more than two weeks of bone-chilling abnormal cold, but in West Jordan, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City, Trevor Stephens went to the ...