A coalition of environmental advocates introduced state legislation Wednesday to guard against data centers’ impacts on ...

After voting down two amendments Monday that would have added provisions frequently demanded by residents who live in communities where data centers are being proposed, the state House of Delegates ...

The rapid expansion of mega data centers across the United States is drawing sharp criticism from environmental researchers and public health advocates who argue the industry’s pollution footprint has ...

When Amazon proposed building its Project Blue data center in Tucson, Arizona, the company faced intense pushback. Residents raised concerns about the enormous amounts of water and electricity that ...

DNREC determined the Project Washington data center near Delaware City is prohibited. Developers are still confident this can get done.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin testifies before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment in the Rayburn House Office Building on May 20, 2025 in ...

Microsoft is one of several companies hoping to build data centers in Indiana, like this one in Washington. Tech companies and governments could be doing more to reduce the environmental impact of AI ...

STATE CAPITOL IN HARRISBURG. TOM. WELL, LAURIE, THIS RELATES TO DATA CENTERS BECAUSE THEY USE A LOT OF POWER. AND AS A RESULT, SENATE REPUBLICANS ARE TOUTING ONE OF THE WINS THEY GOT IN THE BUDGET, ...

Thanks in large part to the training and running of artificial-intelligence models, the amount of power California data centers are using is surging — as are related environmental and health effects, ...

An environmental group is leading a call for Congress to place a moratorium on the construction of new data centers used to power artificial intelligence. More than 230 groups have signed on to a ...

Data centers are springing up across tropical Latin America, Southeast Asia, Indonesia and Africa. But these facilities are often unlike those of the recent past. Today’s advanced data centers are ...