These facilities house the servers that process nearly all digital activity, from online shopping and streaming to banking and health care.

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The Amazon founder predicted that gigawatt-scale data centers will be built in space within the next 10 to 20 years.

The demand for data centers is growing faster than our ability to mitigate their skyrocketing economic and environmental ...

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Data centers are making headlines, but the unremarkable facades of these facilities offer little hint of the powerful technology housed inside. As the demand for AI grows, the data centers that power ...

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed ...

Why are state and local officials so welcoming to the data center industry that appears to take more than it gives to the ...

While President Donald Trump has shifted some long-held conservative positions on things like trade and immigration, the ...

Companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta are rapidly building data centers amid the AI boom. Our interactive map ...