AI data centers that devour huge amounts of energy will be required to pay more for electricity to prevent sticker shock on ...

Microsoft is trying to win over communities concerned about AI data centers. The company's president, Brad Smith, is meeting ...

Giant AI data centers are causing some serious and growing problems – electronic waste, massive use of water (especially in ...

Micron makes hardware components that are critical for AI data centers, and demand is exceeding supply, yet its stock is one ...

We use data centers every day. So why are they so controversial in the communities where tech companies want to build them?

There has been plenty of discussion around data centers lately, especially with the possibility of one coming to Sioux Falls.

Big Tech has come to town. Billion-dollar companies are in a race to build “hyperscale” data centers to fuel their push to power artificial intelligence and cloud computing technologies. The rural ...

Super Micro Computer sank in December, along with other skittishness in the AI datacenter market. The company has strong ...

Data centers seem to be popping up everywhere, with big tech companies proposing to build them on farmland, old golf courses, downtowns and industrial parks. Many of the proposed developments are huge ...

For nearly as long as modern computing has been around, so have the boxy, unassuming data centers that host servers and networking equipment. But the vast capacity needed for the artificial ...

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