Billion-Dollar Data Centers Are Taking Over the World

But data centers, of course, aren’t actually new. In the earliest days of computing there were giant power-sucking mainframes ...

The year data centers went from backend to center stage

There was a time when most Americans had little to no knowledge about their local data center. Long the invisible but ...
The New Yorker

Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid

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 National Interest on MSN

The Hidden Bottleneck of AI Data Centers: Water

Electricity enables AI growth, but water constraints are emerging as a decisive factor in data center siting and approval.

Communities are rising up against data centers — and winning

Local fights against new data centers are gaining bipartisan support across the US. If there’s one thing Republicans and ...

Democratic lawmakers are investigating data centers’ impact on electricity costs

The move comes as rising electricity rates became an increasingly hot-button issue in the US, which has far more data centers ...
Wired

If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here’s Where They Should Go

A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built. An extensive new analysis looks ...