FORT MEADE, Fla. — A proposed data center is moving forward after Fort Meade commissioners unanimously approved a development agreement with developers on Tuesday night. The project, which was ...

Silicon Valley has been pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into building ever-larger AI data centers that require as much electricity as hundreds of thousands of US homes—but that massive ...

UNION COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) — Data centers are a hot topic in Union County after a Texas-based company approached officials with a proposal to build one in the area. During a county council meeting ...

Maine is on the verge of becoming the first state in the nation to slam the brakes on energy-hungry AI data centers, as lawmakers push back against tech giants over fears of higher power bills, ...

Wisconsin is becoming a popular location for data centers due to its climate, water access, and affordable land. The majority of a data center's water footprint comes from the offsite electricity ...

The booming data center industry faces growing pushback from communities and politicians. Industry executives worry that there hasn't been a coordinated response to its image problems. As states ...

The Maine Legislature approved an 18-month moratorium, but Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat running for Senate, has yet to say whether she will sign it. By Jenna Russell Lawmakers in Maine this week ...

The Maine legislature passed the first state ban in the nation on the development of large data centers on Tuesday. The temporary measure, which lasts for 1.5 years, restricts the construction of new ...

IREN has more than 4.5 gigawatts of projects in its pipeline and buys its own Nvidia chips, which allows it to make more lucrative deals with clients. Cipher Digital operates using a low-risk model ...

U.S. utility companies are planning to invest $1.4 trillion over the next five years to update the nation's ailing power grid as the data center boom intensifies the need for electricity. That's ...

The United States has more than 3,000 operational data centers, and that number is expected to grow substantially in the years ahead. More than 1,500 new data centers are in various stages of ...

Robert Costa is a national correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning" and chief Washington analyst for CBS News. Archbald is a little corner of northeastern Pennsylvania where coal used to be big ...