UPPER MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. - A public hearing on a proposed data center for Air Products' former headquarters in Upper Macungie Township is back on the calendar this week. The first hearing before the ...

Wisconsin is becoming a popular location for data centers due to its climate, water access, and affordable land. The majority of a data center's water footprint comes from the offsite electricity ...

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.

NAACP sued Elon Musk's xAI, alleging Clean Air Act violations from the company's use of natural gas-burning turbines to power its data centers. XAI is building out its data infrastructure primarily ...

Ever wondered how massive data systems run smoothly without constant manual effort? Apache Airflow DAGs are at the heart of modern workflow orchestration, allowing data engineers to automate complex ...

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 ...

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming ...

A hot potato: GitHub has announced that starting April 24, the company will begin using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve its AI models unless they opt out.

Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually ...

AI data centers face growing backlash over water use. Atmospheric water harvesting offers a new way to generate sustainable cooling water from air. Data centers in North America are running into ...

John Steinbach was shocked to receive a $281 electricity bill in January 2026—a huge spike from the roughly $100 he’d paid the previous month. “It’s just so far beyond any bill that I’ve ever had,” he ...