Data Centers Are Booming; Their Contracts Could Bust Them

As data center growth accelerates, poorly structured contracts are shifting costs, fueling legal battles and putting ...

AI Demand Is Forcing a Rethink of Data Center Power, Cooling

At Data Center World, experts explain how generative and agentic AI are reshaping data center power, cooling, and ...
WHYY

Pa. data centers: How lawmakers are responding, from electricity and water use to tax breaks

Keystone Trade Center Building 6 (center; purple detail), seen in January 2026, is set to become an Amazon data center at the Keystone Trade Center industrial ...
CNBC

AI data center boom ‘stress tests’ insurers as private capital floods in

Hyperscales are increasingly tapping private credit and debt markets to finance the build-out of AI data centers. The huge sums of money flowing into the sector pose both risks and rewards for ...
9NEWS

$192 million Parker data center nears completion

PARKER, Colo. — A Parker data center being built for a national data center developer headquartered in Centennial is nearing the finish line. Flexential’s data center in Parker will be its largest in ...
Wired

A New Google-Funded Data Center Will Be Powered by a Massive Gas Plant

Documents show that one of Google’s new data centers would be powered by a natural gas plant that emits millions of tons of emissions each year—an increasingly common trend in the industry. A new data ...
Business Insider

Tech billionaires want to put data centers in space. The math could get ugly fast.

Tech billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are advocating for space data centers to scale AI. The space economy could be a $1.8 trillion opportunity by 2035, according to McKinsey and Company. Critics ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Answering readers' questions: How many jobs will data centers create? At what pay level?

The Journal Sentinel asked readers to send us their questions about Wisconsin data centers. More than 300 responded. We previously published answers on topics including power and water use. How many ...
Futurism

Data Centers Causing Huge Temperature Spikes for Miles Around Them, Study Suggests

The data centers at the heart of the AI boom are producing so much heat that they’re spiking land temperatures for miles around them by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit, new research suggests. The effect ...
The Hill

Nation’s first anti-data center referendum passes in Wisconsin

A Wisconsin city passed a referendum Tuesday targeting data center construction, requiring future large-scale projects that receive tax benefits to secure approval from local voters. Port Washington, ...
CNBC

Alibaba launches data center with 10,000 of its own chips as China ramps up AI push

Alibaba and China Telecom launched a data center in China designed for AI training and inferencing. The data center is powered by Alibaba's self-developed Zhenwu AI semiconductors. Chinese firms have ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Atlanta banned data centers in most of the city. One is trying anyway.

Atlanta put data center developers on notice two years ago, effectively saying they aren’t welcome in much of the city. The City Council banned new data centers within a half-mile of the Beltline and ...