If you hang out in any even vaguely AI-skeptical parts of the Internet, you’ve probably stumbled on plenty of memes and posts premised on data centers’ insatiable thirst for water to power evaporative ...

Assemblywoman Anna Kelles and other proponents of the moratorium say it’s necessary to avoid further raising utility rates and to prevent environmental degradation. Lawmakers pushing a data center ...

A unit about the size of an air conditioner, mounted in the side yard, could soon be humming away on artificial intelligence tasks, drawing power from your home’s energy supply and earning you ...

Google and SpaceX are in talks to launch orbital data centers in space, reports The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter. The potential deal comes as SpaceX gears up for its $1 ...

Data centers may be coming to your neighborhood as side installations associated with new homes—and in exchange would offer subsidized electricity and Internet access along with backup batteries to ...

Data centers are top of mind for county and municipal leaders in central North Carolina as we see an AI boom across the world. North Carolina is already home to several massive data centers, and many ...

As Raleigh prepares to implement water restrictions on Monday amid the ongoing drought, attention is turning to how much water large data centers could use and how that demand is managed during dry ...

Keystone Trade Center Building 6 (center; purple detail), seen in January 2026, is set to become an Amazon data center at the Keystone Trade Center industrial ...

SpaceX wants to put up to a million data centers in orbit. There are a few technological hurdles standing in the way. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world ...

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A broad majority of Americans have heard about data centers – the often-sprawling computing facilities that are popping up nationwide. But the public has mixed opinions about data centers’ impact in ...