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.

Elon Musk is bringing the same revolutionary thinking that helped him upend the car industry to the data center business with ...

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

Data center campuses could blanket at least 14% of Archbald, covering more than 2.4 square miles of the borough — an area ...

We’re starting to see the idea of Musk-owned orbital AI data clusters cohere into an actual plan.

We set out to identify every data center in Maricopa County's energy capacity and identify how water use varied among ...

Terrestrial data centers are so 2025. We're taking our large-scale compute infrastructure into orbit, baby! Or at least, that ...

A survey of nearly 300 Wisconsin readers found a large majority oppose the construction of new data centers. Reader concerns ...

The efforts in Pennsylvania and Virginia come as data centers are becoming an increasingly prominent policy issue across the ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the new inductees to the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 3D-printed ...

Tech firms are floating the idea of building data centers in space and tapping into the sun's energy to meet out-of-this-world power demands in a fierce artificial intelligence race.

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