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Voters in a California city ban AI data center construction, plans for Utah data center shrinking over backlash, Seattle issues one-year prohibition on center construction.

But in no case is there a data center threat to the grid. Data centers are too small and growing too slowly to be a threat.

AI data centers are being built, whether most Americans like them or not. Around 3,000 were planned or under construction as of December. The good news is that there actually seems to be more to like than to hate.

The AI race will not be decided by algorithms alone. It will be decided by whether we can build the physical backbone on which advanced computing depends -power plants, transmission, substations, cooling systems, and the...

Building new data centers has become highly controversial. This massive public debate suffers from a major confusion in that what data centers do is seldom mentioned, except that they do AI, which is also controversial.

Scottish greens getting apoplexy!

As Big Tech develops more artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, advocates flaunt the promise of more jobs and innovation, while others warn about the impending power crunch and potential antitrust issues as a handful...

Republican Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, who led the letter, wrote that “as a result of big tech’s misleading energy use claims, coal and natural gas plants are being shut down, putting communities across...

Natural gas is the key to ensuring America wins in this race. Policymakers must recognize the critical intersection of energy and AI competitiveness. Accelerating the expansion and modernization of natural gas infrastructure...

Let me commend FERC for finally engaging on the crucial issue of how we might be able to power the data centers which will be essential to the United States’ efforts to win the artificial intelligence race...

Combined heat and power using waste heat recovery is a natural for AI/data centers deserves more consideration.  We hope that we have lit that spark.

Microsoft has concluded a years-long experiment involving use of a shipping container-sized underwater data center, placed on the sea floor off the cost of Scotland’s Orkney Islands...

Microsoft has concluded a years-long experiment involving use of a shipping container-sized underwater data center, placed on the sea floor off the cost of Scotland’s Orkney Islands...

Google’s data centers run 24/7 and suck up a ton of energy — so it’s in both the company’s and the planet’s interest to make them do so as efficiently as possible...

Emails and Instagram photos don't come without a carbon footprint: they're stored in data centers which continually battle excess heat and suck up electricity to cool servers...