On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a series of commitments intended to assuage a growing backlash to the data center building boom. The company held up Quincy — where it has been building data centers ...

The tech giant laid out a five-point plan to address backlash in communities around the country over AI infrastructure buildouts. Microsoft is pledging to pay for the full costs borne by communities ...

Jan 13 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab on Tuesday unveiled an initiative to curb water usage at its U.S. data centers and limit the impact on the general population from any potential ...

Microsoft on Tuesday released details of a new plan attempting to alleviate concerns from consumers around their massive push to build new AI data centers, including pledge to pay higher electricity ...

Quincy is a small farming town in Central Washington near the Columbia River, home to one of the world’s top french fry producers. It’s also the model for Microsoft’s nationwide data center strategy.

Microsoft said that consumers won't pay more when the software maker sets up data centers and committed to replenish more water than it uses. Utility prices have climbed across the U.S. as tech ...

On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a new initiative called “Community-First AI Infrastructure” that commits the company to paying full electricity costs for its data centers and refusing to seek local ...

Microsoft said on Tuesday that it would be taking a series of steps toward becoming a “good neighbor” in communities where it is building data centers—including promising to ask public utilities to ...

President Donald Trump asks tech companies to "pay their own way" for their data centers. Data centers drove up utility bills in at least 13 states, Business Insider previously reported. Trump says ...

The project, first reported by My San Antonio, consists of a standalone data center totaling nearly 200K SF and is estimated to cost $400M. According to Microsoft’s filings with state regulators, ...

Microsoft (MSFT) has proposed building a new data center on a 237-acre lot in the Township of Lowell, Mich., as part of its commitment to spend more than $80B in fiscal 2026 to support artificial ...