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LANSING — Data center developments are popping up around Michigan as state officials seek to capitalize on growing demand — but the plans are sparking concerns about water and power use. Experts also ...

Power demand from US data centers is set to surge to 106 gigawatts by 2035, according to BloombergNEF, a 36% increase from the research provider’s previous outlook in April. The upward revision in ...

Dominion Energy says its upcoming $11-a-month rate hike is driven by grid upgrades and inflation — not Virginia’s rapidly growing data-center industry. Critics note that Virginia hosts one of the ...

In the world of data centers, ensuring a facility will be online 99.999 percent of the time, is everything. Access to power is the number one priority when developers are trying to figure out where to ...

Data centers completed in Silicon Valley sit empty for years — unable to power up because the local utility lacks capacity to supply them with electricity. AI computing will more than double ...

Google made a deal to bring an Iowa nuclear plant back to life to power its data centers. Google made a deal to bring an Iowa nuclear plant back to life to power its data centers. is a senior science ...

The huge demand for energy to power data centers will be a key focus for antitrust regulators in the future, a former top official at the U.S. Justice Department’s trustbusting division said.

Artificial intelligence is increasingly creeping into our lives. And in support of that super technology, nondescript data centers are popping up in cities, towns and even near cattle ranches. They ...

Global data center power demand is averaging a 17% annual growth rate, a new McKinsey study found. In the US, data centers could account for 14% of total power demand by 2050. Fossil fuels are likely ...

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills. The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern ...