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Dawn of the Data Centers
A global boom is underway. Are countries ready?
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A global boom is underway. Are countries ready?
The US power sector could release 42 percent more planet-heating carbon dioxide pollution by 2030 than it did in 2025 as it builds out more fossil fuel infrastructure to meet data center electricity demand, according to a new analysis...
Earlier this year, DeepGreen Holdings filed a preliminary permit application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The company is seeking to develop two data center projects designed to take advantage of underwater...
An AI company wants to build two underwater data centers that could negatively impact endangered whale populations.
Salience around AI data centers is growing this election cycle as the fight over the infrastructure’s costs and environmental impacts may be threatening Republicans in battleground states like Texas and Ohio. Grassroots movements in...
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When it comes to AI data centers, I believe that the right policy, give or take a few caveats, is simple: build, baby, build.
Many Americans are not happy about AI data centers and say they plan to vote accordingly.
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Locals have made developers drop billions of dollars in data center plans. They may have to win that fight again at the state level
Gary Cohn, IBM vice chairman and former NEC director in the first Trump administration, joined "Squawk Box" to discuss the data center buildout in the U.S.
The battle over data centers is hitting the ballot box. Brookings scholar Darrell West talks about how the backlash against the AI boom, flock cameras and tech companies is crossing party lines.
An elementary school in Loudoun County, Virginia is nearly surrounded by 11 data centers and community members are concerned about the pollution that be might produced and what their kids might be breathing. NBC’s Stephanie Gosk reports...
Nancy Tengler hosts a panel that starts on big tech earnings and ends on what your children should study. Darius Dale, Founder and CEO of 42 Macro, says this market cycle will not survive contact with the 2028 general election, and...
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The company’s free cash flow stayed positive in the last quarter even as it spent $45.2 billion on capital expenses like data centers and offered to pay workers to leave. Only one of the four AI hyperscalers reported positive free cash...
Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and SpaceX each reported increased capex for Q3, with no signs of slowing down for 2027 amid the AI buildout.
Microsoft boasts a strong credit rating and has managed to maintain positive free cash flow, unlike Meta, Alphabet and Amazon.
Only one of the four AI hyperscalers reported positive free cash flow in this round of earnings.
The Federal Reserve held rates steady at 3.75% to 4% in a 10-2 vote, with Governor Lisa Cook dissenting for the first time and Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack joining her in favor of a hike. Fed Chair Kevin...
Opposition to the rapid emergence of data centers in states such as Ohio and Arizona has ginned up activism and unified voters. A range of public health issues have played into the resistance.
Opposition to the rapid emergence of data centers in states such as Ohio and Arizona has ginned up activism and unified voters. A range of public health issues have played into the resistance.
This story was originally published by Capital B and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you’re a Black American (or any American, actually) worried about a data center coming to your neighborhood, the...
AI data center boom faces backlash at US ballot box Reuters
ABC News’ Jay O’Brien talks to Maine Senate candidates Troy Jackson (D) and Sen. Republican Senator Susan Collins from Maine is seeking a sixth term in the US Senate where she will face Democratic candidate Troy Jackson. Covered by 5...
An MS NOW panel on "Morning Joe" marveled over a highly controversial ad by Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), in which she recruited a local news anchor to say that Democratic opponent Troy Jackson essentially had too...
“I think a vote for Mr. Jackson is a vote for Mr. Irrelevant.”
With five days until election night, NBC News’ Steve Kornacki examines the race between incumbent Susan Collins and Democrat Troy Jackson for Maine's U.S. Senate seat.
ABC News’ Jay O’Brien talks to Maine Senate candidates Troy Jackson (D) and Sen. Susan Collins (R), as well as to fishermen and loggers impacted by tariffs placed on machinery imported from Canada.
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From Ellendale, North Dakota, to Loudoun County, Virginia, data centers are transforming communities with billions in tax revenue and lower property taxes.
As AI demand surges, access to reliable power will determine who leads.
As a non-expert in artificial intelligence (AI), I have a vague idea that the tech is responsible for a slew of new data centres that use a lot of water . But I’d be lying if I said I had a more detailed understanding of what data...
Fox News increased pro-data center perspectives after a warning from GOP that Republicans were losing ground in Ohio.
Amazon on Thursday became the latest tech company to announce swelling investments in A.I. amid stumbling share prices.
Despite supposed potential plans to build something other than a data center on the land, the possibility of a massive AI data center coming to San Diego is ruffling a lot of feathers.
In conservative Ohio, the pushback against data centers may propel Democrats at the polls.
Research finds almost a quarter of data center workforce are set to retire in the next 5 to 10 years, potentially leaving a considerable knowledge and experience gap.
Today, POLITICO Energy host Zack Colman sits down for an extended interview with Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat seeking reelection in November. They discuss if Arizona can pursue its tech ambitions amid a water crisis,...
As political fights over artificial intelligence accelerate, there is now a super PAC aligned with the data center industry. Its first bet is on Ms. Graham, a Republican in an unexpectedly tight race.
India’s AI investment boom could create opportunities beyond IT in power, data centres, electronics manufacturing and specialised industries. Axis Mutual Fund highlights the importance of sustainable earnings growth, cash flows and...
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) reacted to the GDP report by saying that investment in AI and data centers is boosting GDP, “The question is, are hard-working families seeing the benefits of that? And
Authorities allege company may have breached Finnish environmental laws by forgoing required impact assessment ‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre Finnish police have launched a...
Finland has launched an investigation into suspected environmental violations at a Google data center site
Finnish police opened a criminal investigation Thursday into Google’s work on a planned data center in northern Finland after the company cleared hundreds of acres of forest without completing required environmental...
The US tech giant is investing $15bn in a huge new data centre project in northern Finland.
Finland launches criminal probe into land clearance for Google data centre Reuters