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A new bill introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would impose a five-year moratorium on the construction of large-scale data center...

The Government’s Blind Spot: Why Washington Still Can’t Track How Much Power AI Data Centers Actually Consume

A bipartisan pair of U.S. senators is demanding answers about a gaping hole in federal energy data — one that has persisted even as artificial intelligence infrastructure has...

The Machines Are Thirsty: How AI Data Centers Are Turning to the Atmosphere Itself for Water

Somewhere in the arid expanses of the American Southwest, a data center hums with the computational intensity required to train a large language model. The servers generate e...

A Kentucky Farmer Said No to $26 Million. What Her Decision Reveals About America’s Data Center Land Rush.

Tiffany Burns doesn't want to sell her farm. Not for $26 million. Not for any price.The 58-year-old Kentucky woman has become an unlikely symbol of resistance in a nat...

The Quiet Revolt Against AC Power: Why Data Centers Are Betting Their Future on Direct Current

For more than a century, alternating current has been the undisputed standard for electrical power distribution. Thomas Edison lost that war to Nikola Tesla and George Westin...

Sanders Introduces Bill for Moratorium on Large AI Data Centers

Senator Bernie Sanders has introduced legislation that could significantly alter the expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States. The bill, known as...

Servers in the Sky: The Audacious, Possibly Insane Bet on Orbital Data Centers

Somewhere between science fiction and a spreadsheet that actually closes, a handful of startups are making a case that the next great frontier for computing isn't a warehouse...

A Structural Engineer Wants to Rebuild the Twin Towers — Using Lasers and Carbon Fiber

Twenty-four years after the World Trade Center collapsed in the worst terrorist attack on American soil, a structural engineer has put forward a proposal that sounds like it...

The CIA’s Venture Arm Just Bet on a Data Center Builder. That Tells You Everything About the New Arms Race.

In-Q-Tel, the nonprofit venture capital arm of the Central Intelligence Agency, has invested in Prometheus Hyperscale, a data center development company — a move that signals...

Microsoft Tears Up the Secrecy Playbook: Why the Tech Giant Is Killing NDAs With Local Governments Over Data Centers

For years, the construction of hyperscale data centers has followed a familiar script. A tech company quietly approaches a local government. Negotiations happen behind closed...

Northern Virginia’s Power Crisis Is Now America’s Problem: How Data Centers Broke the Grid

LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. — The most valuable farmland in America doesn't grow corn or soybeans. It grows servers. Row after row of them, humming inside windowless concrete buildin...

Google’s Massive Bet on Power: How the Search Giant Is Quietly Rewiring America’s Energy Grid

Google is building a power empire. Not in the metaphorical sense that Silicon Valley executives like to invoke when they talk about platform dominance or market share. Litera...

Oracle’s Dual Strategy: Massive Data Center Spending Meets Strict Cost Cutting

Oracle Corporation is facing a defining moment in its corporate history as it simultaneously ramps up capital expenditure for artificial intelligence infrastructure while enf...

Oracle Is Betting Big on Data Centers — But Is It Building Yesterday’s Infrastructure With Tomorrow’s Debt?

Oracle is on a debt-fueled construction spree. And the question haunting Wall Street isn't whether the company can build data centers fast enough — it's whether the data cent...

Stargate’s Flagship Data Center Is Dead. What That Tells Us About the AI Infrastructure Bubble.

The largest single AI data center ever announced in the United States won't be built. Oracle and OpenAI have scrapped plans for a facility in Abilene, Texas, that would have...

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