Pennsylvania lawmakers have advanced two bills designed to give the state and its municipalities more control over the rapid ...

Compared with many major industries, the environmental footprint of AI data centers is still relatively small.

Some states have offered tax incentives to attract high-tech data centers. But concerns about resources, waste and noise pollution are growing.

Congressman Rob Bresnahan is proposing federal legislation aimed at giving local governments greater authority over large-scale data center developments and pro ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world’s largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, which also predicts their water and ...

Nashville lawmakers are pushing to restrict large-scale data centers amid mounting concern over environmental impacts.

IMPERIAL, Calif.—The new data center proposed for a quiet city about 115 miles east of San Diego came across people’s radars in different ways. For patrons of the deli on West Aten Road, it was the ...

A recent Gallup poll found that a majority of Americans oppose data centers, which require extensive amounts of electricity and water to operate, and negatively affect local communities. Omar Gallaga ...

When SpaceX filed an FCC application earlier this year to launch a million satellite data centers into space, the company said that the plan wouldn’t have any environmental impact. But researchers say ...