AI data centers in space offer sustainable computing solutions, avoiding Earth's storms and cyber threats while reducing the environmental impact, experts say.

Despite many proposals, there is little consensus among governors, lawmakers and tech executives about exactly how much the companies behind data centers should pay for electricity.

Microsoft shared five commitments to minimize the impact of its data center buildout on residents, including paying more for electricity.

New bills would force data centers to self-generate electricity, meet aggressive renewable targets and report water use.

Regular energy consumers, not corporations, will bear the brunt of the increased costs of a boom in artificial intelligence that has contributed to a growth in data centers and a surge in power usage, recent research suggests. Between 2024 and 2025, data ...

Google Cloud and NextEra Energy will build GW data centres with dedicated power for enterprise AI adoption, energy efficiency and resilient infrastructure

HOLLY RIDGE, La. — In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world’s largest data centers, a $10 billion behemoth as big as 70 football fields that will consume more power in a day than the entire city of New Orleans at the peak of ...

As artificial intelligence fuels a surge in electricity demand, a Bay Area startup is betting on hydrogen to power the next generation of data centers — and ease their environmental burden. Meta plans to cut 10% of jobs at company’s reality labs ...

With the explosive growth of Big Tech's data centers threatening to overload U.S. electricity grids, policymakers are taking a hard look at a tough-love solution: bumping the energy-hungry data centers off grids during power emergencies. Texas moved first ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — The New York State Assembly held a hearing on Thursday to examine rising energy costs for everyday utility customers tied to new consumers on the electric grid, like artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency data centers.