One data center got $77M in subsidies to produce one job. It's starting to look like the poster child for an industry's ruin.

Wisconsin is becoming a hub for large-scale data centers due to its freshwater, cool climate, and low land costs. Data centers require enormous amounts of water and electricity for cooling, raising ...

Maine is poised to become the first state to pass a temporary ban on data center construction after a measure was approved by both chambers of the state legislature. Similar bills have been introduced ...

A Wisconsin city passed a referendum Tuesday targeting data center construction, requiring future large-scale projects that receive tax benefits to secure approval from local voters. Port Washington, ...

A town of 12,000 people just north of Milwaukee passed a first-of-its-kind referendum to restrict data center development after local officials approved a controversial $15B campus planned by OpenAI ...

A special tax exemption for data centers needs to be reduced or eliminated, Gov. Josh Stein said Wednesday, predicting that if left in place the state could soon lose out on billions of dollars. Stein ...

The AI data center rush already has reached the nation’s driest state in a major way, but lawmakers are just now catching up on considering statewide regulations. Nevada’s interim committees on ...

Metrobloks, a Los-Angeles-based startup, is one step closer to building its proposed $500 million data center in Martindale Brightwood after the city's Metropolitan Development Commission on April 1 ...

Before dawn on March 1, 2026, Iranian Shahed drones struck two Amazon Web Services data centers in the United Arab Emirates. A third commercial data center in Bahrain was hit, though it is less clear ...

Related Digital is finalizing $16 billion of financing for a giant Oracle Corp. data center, after months of stop-and-start negotiations with investors. The developer has been rounding up cash to ...

The data centers at the heart of the AI boom are producing so much heat that they’re spiking land temperatures for miles around them by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit, new research suggests. The effect ...

Artificial intelligence data centers are driving up electric bills in New Jersey and straining local resources, according to a new report. The report from New Jersey Policy Perspective, a nonpartisan ...