There was a time when most Americans had little to no knowledge about their local data center. Long the invisible but critical backbone of the internet, server farms have rarely been a point of ...

If there’s any question about whether data centers are driving the global economy, a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) should dispel any doubts. This year, the world will spend ...

A month after the state’s grid operator said it would pull together data centers and other large load projects that have been waiting to connect to the grid into a group called “ batch zero ,” that ...

Data center power requests in Virginia now total 70,000 MW — triple Dominion Energy’s peak load, according to a new SCC ...

Texas is attracting a huge amount of data center demand due to its energy resources and business friendly environment. Those data centers could contribute to electricity supply shortfalls during ...

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Data centers being developed in Minnesota could result in hundreds of short-term jobs, but others questions what happens once the centers are built.

As artificial intelligence usage soars, so has demand for data centers to power it. Cities are grappling with what that means for their residents’ electricity bills and the reality of living in the ...

The same was true for its estimates on household income. The report estimated $6.9 billion in labor income generated in 2024, but only $3.3 billion came from wages paid to data center and construction ...

AI companies are regularly announcing large data center deals that are fueling a rally in the utility sector. But the utilities on the frontline of the AI boom are struggling to figure out how much of ...

AI data centers require incredible amounts of energy to run. NPR's Planet Money investigates how that demand for power might affect your electric bills. Tech companies invested hundreds of billions of ...