Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

As Dallas-Fort Worth has become a key market for data centers, the facilities have become an integral part of the region's economy and digital infrastructure.

The data center sector faces varied competition with multiple strategies. Read more on where the action is taking place for this key sector.

If data centers are the lifeblood of American artificial intelligence computing, Loudoun County, Virginia is its main artery. The rural county straddling Piedmont Virginia and the Washington ...

The state with the most data centers is struggling to enact laws to protect electric customers and limit the energy and environmental impacts of their explosive growth.

Virginia is for lovers—data center lovers. Nearly half of the nation’s facilities are in the Commonwealth, mostly concentrated in Northern Virginia where there are more data centers than anywhere else ...

Goochland County is considering a technology overlay district to incentivize data centers and small nuclear reactors to be built there.

Data centers may not be visible to most Americans, but they are shaping everything from electricity use to how communities grow. These facilities house the servers that process nearly all digital ...

Think of them as AI factories, churning out your responses from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and all the other generative AI tools. The costs are staggering.

So why the sudden expansion of data centers? They have become increasingly important with the rise in use of artificial intelligence.

ELEANOR, W.Va. — A manufacturing facility in Putnam County is expanding its operations to help run data centers across the country. nVent Electric develops large outdoor buildings that ensure power ...