Proposals could require state approval for data center projects, curtail their energy demand during peak times.

Opposition to data centers is growing for many reasons, but concerns about electricity costs drives a lot of the concern.

The Baltimore County legislation proposes studying the impact that data center development could have in the county.

As data centers hurtle to the forefront of the national debate over artificial intelligence (AI) and energy costs, northern ...

Data Centers and bitcoin mines are remaking rural America the same way coal once did. They move into weak regulatory terrain, ...

Like droves of other companies tied to the fracked gas industry, Halliburton is pivoting toward servicing the data center ...

Across the United States, community meetings that once revolved around potholes and school budgets are now consumed by ...

Grayslake is moving forward with potentially one of the largest single development projects in Lake County’s history, with a multi-billion-dollar data center campus that, if fully built out, would ...

In recent months, the Trump administration has opened a deregulatory floodgate in the name of building more data centers. Among other things, this has involved ordering rollbacks of clean water ...

Tools that power artificial intelligence devour energy. But attempts to shield regular Californians from footing the bill in 2025 ended with a law requiring regulators to write a report about the ...

A city report recommends regulations for AI-fueled data centers to curb strain on Austin’s power grid, water supply and ...