Data centers have long underpinned the internet as we know it, but the generative AI boom has ushered in a new era of rapid, largely unchecked development. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta alone ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two high-profile progressive lawmakers are introducing a bill Wednesday that would pause new data centers in the United States until national safeguards are in place to protect ...

Communities are protesting new data centers due to environmental impacts and rising utility costs. Data centers require significant amounts of electricity and water, with consumption expected to grow.

Editor's note: This is the first of three feature articles Ars is publishing to explore the financial, technical, and competitive dimensions of orbital data centers. Although the idea of putting data ...

As AI labs gorge themselves on compute, data center operators have headed north in search of cheap and plentiful energy. On the bank of the river that runs through the Swedish town of Borlänge, ...

Protestors gathered at a September 10, 2025 Saline Township Board of Trustees meeting to speak in opposition to a data center in the community. Michigan's Zoning Enabling Act doesn't allow local ...