Companies building data centers are increasingly relying on jet engine-based turbines and fossil fuel generators to meet ...

The study identifies AI data centers as a fundamentally distinct category of electricity consumer. Traditional data centers ...

There was a time when most Americans had little to no knowledge about their local data center. Long the invisible but critical backbone of the internet, server farms have rarely been a point of ...

Across the U.S., new AI-driven data centers are causing a significant increase in power demand. Carbon Direct projects that data center capacity in the U.S. will grow from roughly 25 GW in 2024 to 120 ...

Federal regulators will allow tech companies to effectively plug massive data centers directly into power plants.

Data centers are the backbone of everything from Google searches to movie streaming. Now, with artificial intelligence adoption accelerating, the demand for these massive facilities and the power they ...

Each time someone sends an email, streams a show or scrolls social media, they’re interacting with a data center. And now, Michigan is becoming a battleground for them— the warehouse-style facilities ...

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright in December 2025. Correspondent Welcome back to In the Loop, TIME’s new twice-weekly ...

From the beginning of American progress, every leap forward has sparked resistance. The stagecoach gave way to the railroad. Farmers saw their landscapes transformed by factories. Steel mills and coal ...

This is not just about safe water. Research suggests that air pollution associated with data center growth could contribute to approximately 1,300 premature deaths a year in the U.S. by 2030.

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