They power the cloud, stream your shows and store files and documents. Here’s what’s really inside those giant buildings.

And that computing power has a big environmental footprint. A typical AI data center uses as much electricity as 100,000 ...

AI data centers use large amounts of water for cooling. And many are being built in the drought-stricken Mountain West, ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — If you live in or around Tucson, it's hard to avoid hearing about Project Blue. The large proposed data center would be built on 290 acres near the Pima County Fairgrounds. The company ...

(The Center Square) – Data centers may not be visible to most Americans, but they are shaping everything from electricity use to how communities grow. These facilities house the servers that process ...

As demand for artificial intelligence technology boosts construction and proposed construction of data centers around the world, those computers require not just electricity and land, but also a ...

Data centers are driving up consumers' electricity costs, but experts say energy conservation hacks won't lower bills much.

A new data center campus is currently under construction in Elyria-Swansea — a neighborhood already struggling with pollution ...

"Ameren's recent agreements to provide hundreds of megawatts of power to new data centers raise serious concerns about ...

WASHINGTON — Story from The Conversation by Peyton McCauley, Water Policy Specialist, Sea Grant UW Water Science-Policy Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Melissa Scanlan, Professor and ...