Data centers require substantial water and energy. But certain locations are more strained than others, mainly due to rising temperatures.

Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.

This is an installment of the Landline, a monthly newsletter from High Country News about land, water, wildlife, climate and conservation in the Western United States. Sign up to get it in your inbox. In early November, Texas-based New Era Energy & Digital ...

As data centers hurtle to the forefront of the national debate over AI and energy costs, northern Virginia offers a preview of the political fights that will play out in communities across the country seeking to cash in on the booming industry ...

As a country, we are spending more to get data centers up and running than we spent to build the entire interstate highway system. (Yes, that's inflation-adjusted.) With tech companies spending hundreds of billions of dollars on AI, data centers have kind ...

Current Climate brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability every Monday. Sign up to get it in your inbox. The rapid growth and impact of massive data centers, especially for AI and cryptocurrency companies, this year has had big ...

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Mayumi Negishi ponders the risk of marrying pension funds with data center construction projects when there are so many ...

AI and data sovereignty are putting regional data centers at the heart of Europe’s AI evolution. Local data centers and storage providers are creating real value for businesses by offering deeper local expertise and aligning closely with regional governance requirements.