There's a growing backlash against the construction of local data centers, which consume massive amounts of electricity for compute and water for cooling in order to power artificial intelligence.

There’s growing community resistance against a hyperscale data center project in the village of Grayslake — what could be the largest single development in Lake County’s history — but with work ...

The explosion of proposed data centers across Illinois has sparked a fierce, bipartisan backlash and even legislation to curb the long-lasting effects on people’s air quality, water quality, and ...

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Could AI be hooked directly to your house? Premier tech company, Nvidia, is teaming up with a start-up to put artificial intelligence data centers into personal homes and businesses. California-based ...

An illustration of a Starcloud orbital data center, designed to power artificial intelligence workloads in space. Credit: Starcloud The orbital data center boom is promising opportunities well beyond ...

For years, pundits have lamented that America no longer builds things. Bridges and roads take decades to complete, and housing construction in many places has slowed to a crawl. Governments at all ...

FORT MEADE, Fla. — A proposed data center is moving forward after Fort Meade commissioners unanimously approved a development agreement with developers on Tuesday night. The project, which was ...

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