Power-grid operators are asking tech companies to supply their own electricity—or go dark at times—but many are pushing back.

Artificial intelligence is supposed to be the clean, digital brain of the modern economy. Instead, the race to build ever ...

Proposals could require state approval for data center projects, curtail their energy demand during peak times.

In June, Business Insider published an investigation into the data center industry. We wanted to dig into the pace of growth in light of the artificial intelligence boom, as well as the resources the ...

Companies building data centers are increasingly relying on jet engine-based turbines and fossil fuel generators to meet ...

Corin Cesaric is a Flex Editor at CNET. She received her bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Before joining CNET, she covered crime at People Magazine and ...

As AI-driven timelines outpace grid capacity, Ben Rapp contends that future-ready data centers will depend on tightly integrated power and cooling architectures—modular, ...

The rise of artificial intelligence is driving a surge of data center construction across the United States, and rural communities are feeling the impact. Reading time 4 minutes Elena Schlossberg and ...

Recently, while I was taking an Uber from the airport, my driver told me he’d been reading some articles about data centers. “They’re baaaad,” he said ominously. However, a moment later, we were ...

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 ...