Meta now plans to spend $10 billion on its AI data center in El Paso, Texas, up from a prior commitment of $1.5 billion. The data center aims to bring 1 gigawatt of capacity online by 2028. Meta is ...

Zac Landicini lives about 3 miles from where the data center is being constructed in Vineland, N.J. He has two young children and worries about asthma and the cost of utilities like power and water.

John Steinbach was shocked to receive a $281 electricity bill in January 2026—a huge spike from the roughly $100 he’d paid the previous month. “It’s just so far beyond any bill that I’ve ever had,” he ...

At a packed and contentious Joliet City Council meeting on Tuesday night, opponents outnumbered supporters of a proposed data center at the edge of the city, not far from a large warehouse development ...

A broad majority of Americans have heard about data centers – the often-sprawling computing facilities that are popping up nationwide. But the public has mixed opinions about data centers’ impact in ...

Quanta Services has made strategic acquisitions to capitalize on the data center infrastructure boom. Vertiv has experienced record growth in organic orders and has developed prefabricated ...

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A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats say breaches tied to the industry have cost people tens of billions of dollars.

Louisiana Economic Development (LED) announced Feb. 23 that Amazon selected the state for $12 billion data center campuses in Caddo and Bossier Parish. LED announced Dec. 17, 2025, that West Feliciana ...

Large-scale data centers — massive warehouses of computer chips used for artificial intelligence systems and cloud computing — are coming to Michigan, sparking backlash across the state. So what’s it ...

AURORA, Ill. (WLS) -- Data centers are moving in. They power everything from streaming services to artificial intelligence, but critics say they are noisy and can jack up your electric bills. Now, the ...