As Raleigh prepares to implement water restrictions on Monday amid the ongoing drought, attention is turning to how much water large data centers could use and how that demand is managed during dry ...

A new Gardner Policy Institute report digs into the details of data center development. Utah is on track to triple its data center capacity in the next few years. Water, energy and environmental ...

The US federal government’s central energy information agency is planning to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use, according to a letter seen by WIRED.

The state House on Monday passed two bills intended to help the state and local governments grapple with the impacts of data centers, as communities across the commonwealth continue to deal with the ...

CINCINNATI—Late at night, or when her 18-month-old daughter is napping, Jessica Sharp logs onto Chat GPT and asks it to help her in her fight to stop a data center from being built just steps away ...

NEW YORK, April 7 (Reuters) - U.S. power consumption, which hit its second straight annual record high in 2025, will rise further in 2026 and 2027, the Energy Information Administration said in its ...

LONDON, April 6 (Reuters) - Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet's Google have each recently abandoned construction of multibillion-dollar data centers over community opposition and now the companies are ...