State lawmakers expect answers from the Public Utility Commission on industrial water use by AI data centers and cryptomining by the end of 2026.

Environmental regulators last week said the “Project Washington” data center proposed by Starwood Digital Ventures doesn’t meet Coastal Zone Act regulations. It proposes using 516 diesel-powered ...

Some South Carolina data centers use hundreds of millions of gallons of water every year. State proposals would require data ...

WASHINGTON — Story from The Conversation by Peyton McCauley, Water Policy Specialist, Sea Grant UW Water Science-Policy Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Melissa Scanlan, Professor and ...

"Directions to 255 USA Parkway," Brian Armon asked his phone's AI assistant, which responded with a virtual map and a traffic report. Armon, a commercial real estate broker, was driving to the Tahoe ...

A single data center can consume up to 3 million to 5 million gallons of drinking water a day, enough to supply thousands of households or farms, write Eric Olson, Anne Grau and Taylor Tipton. Nathan ...

MIAMI VALLEY — There are hundreds of data centers operating across Ohio. The facilities power the internet and Artificial Intelligence (AI). There are at least two more of them on the way to the ...

Quietly but quickly, Phoenix has become one of the nation’s hotspots for a booming economic and technological phenomenon of late-stage capitalism: data centers – the boxy, sprawling farms of wire and ...

In Colón, a town in Mexico’s Querétaro state, frustration is boiling over. Residents are protesting the construction of new data centers, fearing these massive facilities will drain millions of liters ...

MinnPost’s journalists are out in the community to report on the things that are happening in Minnesota. Your support right now will help fund their work AND keep our news paywall-free. A 2024 report ...