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A developer plans to build a 160-acre data center and its own gas-fired power plant in Surprise. Residents near the proposed site worry about air pollution, health risks, and safety concerns. Because ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The race to power artificial intelligence is on, and tech giants like Google, Meta and Microsoft are placing multibillion-dollar bets on nuclear energy. Ohio may be ground zero. The ...

The Trump administration is pressing the nation’s largest electric grid operator to conduct an emergency power auction as part of a broader effort to make tech giants cover soaring data center power ...

Trump administration officials and a bipartisan group of governors announced a plan Friday to tackle high electricity prices by essentially having giant technology companies pay for the construction ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is taking action to protect American consumers from soaring electricity bills with plans to direct the biggest U.S. grid operator, PJM, hold an emergency power auction in ...

The data center industry is racing toward a power crisis that technology alone will not be able to solve, according to Uptime Institute’s 2026 data center predictions report. “Critical digital ...

CHEYENNE — Plans are moving forward on a proposed power plant and a data center campus south of Cheyenne following the Laramie County Board of Commissioners’ approval last week of the two facilities’ ...

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 ...

The critical power shortage for AI data centers has renewed interest in nuclear energy, years after it fell out of favor. There’s considerable activity among established players like Constellation ...

DULUTH — A citizens advocacy group called Cure wants state regulators to take a harder look at whether Minnesota Power officials adequately disclosed their inside knowledge of plans for a hyperscale ...

Meta has cut a trio of deals to power its artificial intelligence data centers, securing enough energy to light up the equivalent of about 5 million homes. The parent company of Facebook on Friday ...