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JLL: Global Data Center Capacity To Double By 2030 In $3T 'Supercycle'

A new report from JLL projects data center inventory will reach 200 gigawatts by the end of the decade as tech giants pour ...

Big Tech's fast-expanding plans for data centers are running into stiff community opposition

Tech companies and developers looking to plunge billions of dollars into ever-bigger data centers to power artificial ...

Virginia Tech seeks to create research center to address data center issues

On Friday, WDBJ7 spoke with a Virginia Tech researcher to learn about a recent workshop the school conducted about the impact ...

Data center surge reaches India as American tech giants invest billions

American tech giants like Microsoft are making big bets on data centers in India, which has been weighing laws that would ...
Pew Research Center

What we know about energy use at U.S. data centers amid the AI boom

Artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years, with tech companies investing billions of dollars in data centers to help train and run AI models. The expansion of data centers has ...
WKAR

Your guide to Michigan’s data center boom — and the growing backlash

Data centers are sparking controversy in communities across Michigan. This photo was taken on a street in Ypsilanti Township. Data centers are making headlines across the country and Michigan is no ...
NBC Bay Area

Data centers for AI could nearly triple San Jose's energy use. Who foots the bill?

San Jose, the symbolic capital of Silicon Valley, is now ground zero in California’s battle over how to govern the rise of data centers used to power artificial intelligence. The county seat of Santa ...
Colorado Public Radio

As AI data centers multiply across the Mountain West, so do fears over water use

"Directions to 255 USA Parkway," Brian Armon asked his phone's AI assistant, which responded with a virtual map and a traffic report. Armon, a commercial real estate broker, was driving to the Tahoe ...
MinnPost

When done right, data centers can be community assets

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. During the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, a nearby data center supplied waste ...
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Wisconsin data center energy demands, costs, capacity form puzzle

(The Center Square) – Increased energy use from artificial intelligence data centers in Wisconsin will have a cost. But the question is whether those costs will reach the residential utility payers on ...

Big Tech blocks California data center rules, leaving only a study requirement

A new law orders regulators to study the cost impacts of fast-growing, energy-hungry AI data centers. Lawmakers are expected ...
Government Technology

Data Centers May Be a Boon to Industry, But Not Everywhere

Data center development is a driver to the electronics and technology industries, even as forces like inflation and tariffs pump the brakes on the U.S. economy. “We see a subdued outlook for ...