The AI and data center boom is here, but communities nationwide are pushing back. Here is a closer look at the industry and issues around it.

OpenAI to focus on other data center campuses ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Michael Thomas, CEO of Cleanview, about his new report on tech companies' plans to build their own off-grid power plants to provide energy for data centers.

Demands that tech companies provide their own power highlights the electricity and water demands of data centers, impacting Pa.'s grid and residents.

The key ones are the first three: that the companies building data centers pledge to pay for new generating capacity, either building it themselves or paying for it as part of a new or expanded power ...

The Electric Power Research Institute’s electricity-demand estimates are about 60 percent higher than the group anticipated ...

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and cloud computing is outpacing the ability of many community water systems to deliver large bursts of water on the hottest days of the year to keep the ...

Economic momentum in the United States is no longer moving in one direction — it is fragmenting. The Fed’s latest Beige Book paints a picture of a two-speed economy: five out of twelve Fed Districts ...

Leaders from Google, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, OpenAI, Amazon, and xAI met with President Donald Trump today to sign a “ rate ...

There are five data centers being constructed in. Including Clarksdale, there are at least four more centers under consideration.

"That's not what we are asking you," a resident told a councilor. "We are asking you to vote no. The people overwhelmingly have said they do not want the data center." ...