The facilities power everything from streaming to AI. Thousands more are planned, raising questions about electricity, water, jobs and costs.

Politicians on the left and right are suddenly jumping aboard the anti-data center bandwagon.

Just one in two Brits know what a data center is, but even more see them as having a negative impact and many are worried ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the use of artificial intelligence continues to grow and the data centers needed to power it become increasingly unpopular ...

Data centers are showing up in cities, towns, and farmland across the country. With more than 4,100 data centers in the United States, they appear as giant windowless buildings that require a lot of ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign an executive order on Tuesday pausing hyperscale data center development in New York, making it the first state to enact such a ban. The order will bar the state from ...

Amazon, a heavy investor in AI, has pioneered a technology it says will make its data centers both more resilient and more power efficient. A 2026 report by Wired shared that Amazon claims the new ...

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, a national labor union, strongly supports data centers and has been a ...

Underutilized data center capacity leads to high costs for businesses, as inefficient resources hinder optimal performance and workload management.

Water has become the defining issue in the data center debate. Not because it is misunderstood, but because it is experienced locally, immediately and, in many cases, under stress. Communities do not ...

Residents were joined by local and state leaders as they protested outside of a data center information panel held by county ...