The effort is drawing bipartisan support and is expected to come up again next year as officials grapple with the artificial intelligence boom’s side effects. States facing drought and dwindling ...

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 ...

COWETA COUNTY, Ga. — Massive data centers proposed for metro Atlanta expect to use millions of gallons of water per day. Some of those data centers are planning to use more water than entire Georgia ...

Starting December 16, 2025, Meta will begin adding AI chats to the behavioral data it gathers to further personalize its experiences and ad targeting. This move blurs the line between private ...

Artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years, with tech companies investing billions of dollars in data centers to help train and run AI models. The expansion of data centers has ...

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Quietly but quickly, Phoenix has become one of the nation’s hotspots for a booming economic and technological phenomenon of late-stage capitalism: data centers – the boxy, sprawling farms of wire and ...

In December 2024, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, announced plans to construct a four million square foot data center campus in Northeast Louisiana. The $10 billion AI ...

An environmental group is suing the city of Racine, Wisconsin, for failing to disclose projected water use for a Microsoft data center in Mount Pleasant. The lawsuit alleges the city of Racine ...

Artificial intelligence might be booming on paper, but in the real world, there are signs of a major slowdown. In their latest biweekly survey of AI adoption, the US Census Bureau found evidence of an ...

The Trump administration’s abusive efforts to repurpose millions of federal records and funnel them into a centralized government database represent a systemic shift toward a consolidation of ...

AI Data Centers’ Soaring Energy Use: Who Pays for Higher Utilities Costs? Your email has been sent The rising number of AI data centers in the US could drive utility costs higher and has put parts of ...