Think of them as AI factories, churning out your responses from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and all the other generative AI tools. The costs are staggering. Corin Cesaric is a Flex Editor at CNET. She ...

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills. The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — We have heard from many of you concerned about higher electric bills. Some point out that higher natural gas prices for electric power generation is involved with rising costs. But the ...

Aurora has temporarily paused the approval of data center and warehouse proposals to give staff the chance to create new guidelines around these types of developments. The temporary moratorium was ...

Data center developers should provide their own electricity if enough isn't available, Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Axios in a Climate Week NYC interview. Why it matters: Energy-hungry data ...

Data centers are intensive energy consumers, expected to represent 12% of total U.S. electricity consumption by 2030 — largely due to constant innovations in the artificial intelligence space. This ...

Earlier this week, OpenAI announced a “strategic partnership” with AI chipmaker Nvidia in which the duo of tech giants will build and deploy upwards of 10 gigawatts of AI data centers. Nvidia will ...

Late Tuesday night, NorthWestern Energy announced it has signed a letter of intent to supply as much as 1,000 megawatts (one gigawatt) of electricity by the year 2030 to a proposed data center in ...

HOLLY RIDGE, La. — In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world’s largest data centers, a $10 billion behemoth as big as 70 football fields that will consume more power in a day ...

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