Massive new data centers are the physical foundation for tech companies’ hopes and dreams for AI. But the rush to expand warehouses full of energy-hungry servers has also kicked up fights across the ...

In a greenfield industrial park in rural Aiken County, South Carolina, Meta is building a new $800 million data center that’s much like any of the other hyperscale data centers giant tech companies ...

Can light behave like a whirlwind? It turns out it can—and such "optical tornadoes" have now been created in an extremely small structure by scientists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of ...

Entergy Louisiana plans to dramatically boost the amount of electricity it can generate and transmit in Richland Parish, where it is already building power plants for Meta’s massive AI data center, ...

Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually ...

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 ...

The US senator said on Tuesday that a moratorium would give lawmakers time to "ensure that AI is safe." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will introduce a similar bill in the House in the weeks ahead. US ...

WAYNE COUNTY, MI - As anxiety grows that power-hungry data centers could drive up power bills and keep Michigan hooked on fossil fuels, some advocates say a new deal between the state’s largest power ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went to extreme lengths to secure compute capacity in 2025, inking a flurry of multibillion-dollar infrastructure deals. As the company gears up for a potential IPO this year, ...

PIKETON — Just outside the once-bustling Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, the U.S. Department of Energy has entered a partnership with Japanese investment to produce natural gas energy, enough ...

Blue Origin has revealed its plans for an orbital AI data center system in a new filing with the Federal Communications Commission. The company has asked the agency for permission to deploy 51,600 ...