Tech companies in the AI race need power, and lots of it. They aren’t waiting around for the archaic U.S. power grid to catch up. In West Texas, natural-gas-fired power generation is under construction as part of the $500 billion Stargate project from ...

A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built. An extensive new analysis looks at the environmental footprint of data centers in the ...

Anthropic will spend $50 billion to build its own data centers. They'll be in Texas, New York, and elsewhere across the US. It could set new standards for AI labs trying to scale. Anthropic will invest $50 billion in the construction of its own data ...

With the nation’s biggest electric grid operator set to vote on a new policy on data centers this week, a group of bipartisan Maryland politicians and utility watchdog groups is pressuring regulators to require data centers to supply their own electricity.