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Data centers fueling the AI surge are propping up America's aging coal plants. Utilities delay retirements. Emissions climb. Nonprofits sound the alarm just in time for Earth...

Data Centers’ Hidden Toll: $25 Billion in U.S. Health and Pollution Costs Fuels Backlash

America's data center boom powers the AI age. Yet it extracts a steep price from public health and the environment. New research pegs last year's damage at $25 billion. That'...

Backlash Blackouts: How Grassroots Fury Is Upending AI Data Centers and Tech Valuations

Gunshots shattered the night in Indianapolis. A city councilman, Ron Gibson, huddled inside with his eight-year-old son as bullets pierced his storm door. Come morning, a note w...

AI’s Power Crunch Forces Britain’s Datacenters Northward from London

Britain's datacenter hubs face a reckoning. AI workloads demand vast electricity, yet London's grid strains under the weight. Over 80% of the UK's capacity clusters in Greate...

Seattle’s AI Power Clash: Mayor Eyes Data Center Freeze as Tech Giants Push South

Seattle's cheap hydropower has long drawn data center operators. Now, that lure is sparking a fierce backlash. Four companies approached Seattle City Light with plans for fiv...

Memphis Can’t Breathe: The NAACP’s Lawsuit Against Elon Musk’s xAI Exposes the Hidden Cost of America’s AI Boom

The gas turbines run around the clock. Dozens of them, arrayed across a sprawling facility in southwest Memphis, burning natural gas to feed one of the most power-hungry arti...

Oracle Bets Big on Fuel Cells: Why the Database Giant Is Bypassing the Grid to Power Its AI Ambitions

Oracle is done waiting for the electric grid to catch up with its appetite for power.The company has struck a deal with Bloom Energy to install solid oxide fuel cells...

A Small Missouri Town Said No: How Residents Defeated a Massive Data Center and What It Means for the Industry

The residents of Mulberry, Missouri, didn't want a fight. They got one anyway.In a vote that has sent ripples through the data center development world, citizens of th...

Maine Draws a Line in the Dirt: The First State Poised to Ban Large Data Centers

In the pine-covered stretches of central Maine, where paper mills once roared and hydroelectric dams still churn the Kennebec and Androscoggin rivers, a different kind of ind...

The Great Data Center Stall: Nearly Half of U.S. Projects Planned for 2026 Are Already Dead or Delayed

The American data center boom was supposed to be unstoppable. Hundreds of billions of dollars committed. Massive campuses announced in every corner of the country. Governors...

OpenAI’s $100 Billion Stargate Dream Keeps Losing the People Tasked With Building It

The most ambitious data center project in the history of computing is hemorrhaging leadership. Again.Two senior executives steering OpenAI's Stargate initiative — the...

The Pentagon’s Landlord Play: Why the U.S. Army Is Leasing Base Land to Big Tech for Data Centers

The U.S. Army is about to become one of America's most unusual commercial landlords. Four major military installations will soon host privately built and operated data center...

Google’s $100 Million Android Settlement Is Live — And Most Users Will Get Almost Nothing

The claim site is open. The deadline is approaching. And the payout, for most people, will barely cover a cup of coffee.Google has agreed to pay $100 million to settle...

The 700-Billion-Parameter Model You’ve Never Heard Of Is Quietly Reshaping How Microsoft Predicts What You’ll Buy Next

Somewhere between the headline-grabbing AI wars of OpenAI, Google, and Meta, a company most people have never heard of is building something that could fundamentally alter ho...

Data Centers Are Going to Sea — And Hitachi Just Made the Biggest Bet Yet

The ocean may be the next frontier for data infrastructure. Not as metaphor, but as literal real estate.Nautilus Data Technologies, a California-based company that has...

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