Legislation that could be enacted this spring would pause construction of large new data centers until November 2027.

Our leaders must rein in data centers’ harms to our environment, economy, and society. Until then — no more new data centers! Update (December 8, 2025): Today, more than 230 organizations nationwide ...

Over the last two months, a first-of-a-kind project has taken shape at an industrial site in Nevada: the world’s largest microgrid built with used EV batteries, designed to power an adjacent data ...

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 ...

The ginormous LED screen flashed as dignitaries celebrated inside a bare industrial warehouse serving as New Albany, Ohio's latest data center. "Water is for streams, not streaming," it beamed to ...

ISIS ACTIONS AND ASKING FOR THE AGENCY TO BE ABOLISHED. THE NEW ORLEANS CITY COUNCIL MET TODAY TO TALK ABOUT A PROPOSED DATA CENTER IN NEW ORLEANS EAST. WELL, THEY WERE MET WITH MANY CONCERNS FROM ...

Current Climate brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability every Monday. Sign up to get it in your inbox. The rapid growth and impact of massive data centers, especially for AI ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Plans for an Augusta data center − announced years ago and possibly forgotten by many − have grown quite a bit. New plans call for the data center to occupy as much space as ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — Democratic state lawmakers unveiled a bill on Friday that would prevent construction of new data centers in New York for three years. It would pause the industry’s meteoric ...