The centers use water both directly and indirectly to produce electricity.

Data center hotspots such as Virginia, he said, have centers “stacked on top of each other.” McHugh said the Mason County developer, in contrast, is a “major technology company that is extremely, ...

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Foxconn, in partnership with Japanese-owned SoftBank, will be building AI data center equipment within the former Lordstown GM Assembly plant.

The Montana Public Service Commission will be scheduling a meeting soon to gather information on data centers.

Port KC approved a $10 billion bond for a 500-acre data center in Kansas City's Northland and is moving forward with a separate data center proposal near KCI.

Albemarle County is considering new rules that would regulate where new data centers can be built, how large they can be and more.

As data center developers invest billions of dollars in Pennsylvania, the state is weighing who should pay for their arrival.

Large data centers help power everything from artificial intelligence to cloud storage to social media sites. Such projects may be coming to Kentucky.

An unexpected solution lies within the data center industry. Traditionally, a ‘back end’, low-priority consideration, data centers are now at the forefront of a sustainable A.I. industry.

AI-assisted summary Georgia's moratorium on state data center reviews concerns environmental advocates due to the potential impact on local water planning. Data centers' substantial water usage, ...

The world's highest concentration of data centers is in Virginia. Many residents are not happy about that.