Governor Spencer Cox, a Republican, says nuclear, geothermal, and solar power should help fuel the colossal Stratos Project.

Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. is a policy reporter at The Verge ...

Governor Ron DeSantis recently signed a bill to subject data centers to increased regulation in Florida. SB 484, introduced by Republican state Senator Bryan Avila, lays out detailed requirements for ...

There's a growing backlash against the construction of local data centers, which consume massive amounts of electricity for compute and water for cooling in order to power artificial intelligence.

Public opposition to data centers is hardening as overwhelming majorities of Americans now oppose construction of the facilities in their communities, according to a newly released Gallup survey. The ...

Nobody wants this in their backyard – yet for many Americans in rural communities, there isn’t much of a choice. In Utah, the Box Elder County Commission recently voted unanimously to go through with ...

The explosion of proposed data centers across Illinois has sparked a fierce, bipartisan backlash and even legislation to curb the long-lasting effects on people’s air quality, water quality, and ...

There’s growing community resistance against a hyperscale data center project in the village of Grayslake — what could be the largest single development in Lake County’s history — but with work ...

Americans have soured on data centers, polls show, and the sentiment is profoundly bipartisan. How will that change our politics? Americans have soured on data centers, polls show, and the sentiment ...

Nevada remains one of the fastest-growing data center regions in the U.S., according to the Desert Research Institute, a Nevada environmental nonprofit research organization. The DRI released a ...

IMPERIAL, Calif.—The new data center proposed for a quiet city about 115 miles east of San Diego came across people’s radars in different ways. For patrons of the deli on West Aten Road, it was the ...