The number of companies, associations and groups that reported lobbying on data centers has doubled since last year.

The Greater Birmingham Humane Society filed a lawsuit earlier this month in a bid to block Nebius Group's data center project in Alabama.

Nelson, who grew up in Abbott and still owns a home there, wrote in a social media post that the last thing the community needs is a "loud, water thieving, light polluting data center."

The fight over Vantage Data Centers’ self-powered campus shows how bypassing the grid can expose AI infrastructure companies to health claims, lawsuits, and community opposition.

Verizon is seeking to tap into Silicon Valley’s AI spending in a big way. The telecom giant revealed a deal worth more than $1 billion to link Google data centers using Verizon’s dark fiber routes—and it’s also tearing copper wiring out of central offices as it converts them into small data centers suitable for supporting AI inference workloads.

Democrat Paige Cognetti is taking a shot at artificial intelligence data centers in her challenge to freshman Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan, saying “we're not for sale” in a new TV ad in a swing Pennsylvania congressional district where communities are fighting data center projects.

Data center projects are on municipal drawing boards across the Pittsburgh region, and public opposition is growing. But how much power does your town really have to stop or even modify them? Andy Sheehan reports.

The largest grid operator in the U.S. says it will cut power to large data centers to prevent blackouts starting next year.