Fueled by a boom in artificial intelligence and the nation’s insatiable demand for cloud computing, Michigan is plunging into an era of massive data centers. Across the state, developers are pitching ...

Drive in almost any direction from almost any American city, and soon enough you’ll arrive at a data center—a giant white box rising from graded earth, flanked by generators and fenced like a prison ...

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the economics and environmental impacts of energy-hungry data centers and whether these facilities are sustainable in the age of AI. Tech giants have been ...

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Big Tech companies use secrecy agreements with local governments to keep communities from knowing who is building in their backyards. On a March afternoon in Mason County, Kentucky, Dr. Timothy ...

According to a new report from the International Energy Agency, the world will spend $580 billion on data centers this year — $40 billion more than will be spent finding new oil supplies. Those ...