State and local governments are under real pressure to move from experimentation to execution for artificial intelligence. Constituents expect faster services, more transparency and digital ...

The current problems began in 2024, when a Houthi missile struck a cargo ship in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait off the coast of ...

Data centers may be coming to your neighborhood as side installations associated with new homes—and in exchange would offer ...

Measures seeking to block or rein in data center construction are gaining momentum at the state and local level, as Americans increasingly sour on the massive buildout of AI infrastructure in their ...

A data center is planned to occupy a vacant commercial building in Monterey Park, Calif., near homes and businesses and not far from downtown Los Angeles. Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. When he was a “punk-ass skater kid,” Diego Mendoza-Moyers would circle the drainage ditches of El Paso, “a Wild West town ...

The growing anger over the AI industry’s obsession with building massive and resource-intensive data centers across the country is as palpable than ever. A recent survey by the Pew Research Center ...

The booming data center industry faces growing pushback from communities and politicians. Industry executives worry that there hasn't been a coordinated response to its image problems. As states ...

Residents of a Sterling neighborhood already are upset about constant data center noise — and now they have a new concern. A study done for an environmental group shows emissions from the center could ...

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — Prince William County leaders have decided to end the fight to bring a controversial data center hub to the area. On Tuesday, the Prince William County Board of ...

Apex leaders voted Tuesday night in favor of putting a temporary, one-year suspension on a proposed data center development. The Apex Town Council voted unanimously in favor of the one-year moratorium ...