The city of Ulanqab in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, a pastoral region that became a haven for data centers over the past few years, debuted China’s largest industrial park for artificial intelligence (AI) last week.
Company representatives for a proposed data center left a city council meeting in Oregon after they discovered protestors had brought a guillotine.
In our age of low workforce growth and remote work, who would be building offices at such an accelerated pace? What’s fueling the growth is data center construction.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that while New York has put a moratorium on hyperscale data centers, “my guess is they’re going to be using what the data centers produce. Okay, so it’s just
Sunday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Judge Glock, Director of Research and Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute talked about data centers. Glock said, “Power plants and prisons and municipal landfills are unpretty, too, and need places for those. And now
Nearly 1,000 Georgia residents confronted OpenAI and Effingham County officials Thursday about a $20 billion data center project that had been negotiated in secret for months before being announced earlier this week without public input.
Duke Energy on Thursday rolled out its Customer Protection Plus framework to guide how the company assesses, plans, and manages data center growth, and it projects that data centers’ progression will result in a billion in savings being passed along to customers.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday at a Ratepayer Protection Pledge roundtable that the pledge is how the United States will promote economic growth, lower costs, protect consumers, and dominate the global artificial intelligence race all at once.
Artificial intelligence will strengthen the human connection, not replace it, a new AI campaign from Mark Zuckerberg claims, concluding that the advancement will help global connectivity overall – not reduce it.
Erin Brockovich — who landed a historic $333 million settlement against Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) in 1993 and inspired Julia Roberts’ 2000 film, Erin Brockovich — has revealed that she is now being flooded with submissions from U.S. residents reporting the construction of AI data centers in their areas.
A Marxist organizer who is opposing the development of an AI data center in Virginia is also tied to the Party of Socialism (PSL), a Marxist-Leninist group that has been tied to a Chinese-linked network, Fox News reported, citing digital records.
On Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Guy Benson Show,” former Trump Economic Adviser Stephen Moore said that data centers “should pay most of the electricity bills. In other words, they shouldn’t just pay their own way, they should pay
New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) has announced the country’s first statewide freeze on new hyperscale data center construction, pausing environmental permits for up to one year while the state develops comprehensive regulatory standards.
Global data center electricity consumption is projected to surge 26 percent this year, reaching 565 terawatt-hours as AI workloads push power demand to unprecedented levels, according to new forecasts from research firm Gartner.
State Armor founder and CEO Michael Lucci is calling on leaders of three congressional committees to investigate whether China and other foreign interests are attempting to impede the development of infrastructure essential to America’s artificial intelligence capabilities.
Portland General Electric has implemented a nearly 30 percent rate increase for large power consumers including data centers and industrial facilities, while simultaneously reducing electricity costs for residential customers by about 1.3 percent.
Prince George’s County, Maryland, has enacted a two-year moratorium on new data center construction, marking one of the strictest restrictions on AI data centers in the Mid-Atlantic region.
The city of Cheyenne, Wyoming, has announced a suspension of wastewater acceptance from data center operations after a building contractor for Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta contaminated the municipal wastewater system with a rare bacteria.
Erin Brockovich, who secured a historic $333 million settlement against PG&E in 1993 and was immortalized by Julia Roberts on the silver screen, has launched a new battle against the proliferation of AI data centers across the United States and beyond.
Georgia is reportedly struggling to meet the growing water demands of AI data centers, as Atlanta planners urge operators to prioritize community needs and reduce consumption — even as water usage varies widely across facilities.
The concept of building AI data centers in orbit has gained renewed momentum following SpaceX’s record-breaking IPO that raised over $85 billion and valued the company in the trillions. Elon Musk’s success and the massive pushback against AI data centers in rural and suburban communities has spurred competitors including Jeff Bezos to develop their own plans for space-based data centers
The DOJ has intervened in a pollution lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI company, now a division of SpaceX, claiming the AI firm plays a vital role in military operations and national security.
Opponents of AI data center construction have blocked or delayed a record number of projects worth nearly $130 billion so far this year, according to a recent study.
During an interview aired on Thursday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) argued that energy costs from data centers “should be internalized by tech companies themselves, rather than exported to the American people.” And “there’s a
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has reportedly attracted more than $250 billion in investor interest for its blockbuster IPO on Friday.
Country music star Brad Paisley is calling on citizens to block the proposed construction of an AI data center that is planned to be built 50 yards from the Nashville Zoo, calling it “an absolute nightmare scenario,” adding, “It would be an enormous monstrosity.”
Elon Musk offered a detailed glimpse into SpaceX’s planned orbital AI data centers as the company prepares for what could be the largest IPO in history this week.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is launching a free training program to prepare Americans for skilled trade jobs building the company’s rapidly expanding network of data centers. According to the company, participants who successfully complete the program will have a guaranteed job in the trades.
An Indiana mayor is under fire for insinuating that people who oppose data centers being built in their area live in “shitty houses.”
Google announced Wednesday it will invest $10 million in water infrastructure projects across Texas communities where the tech giant plans to construct data centers, marking the company’s first attempt to quell backlash against massive data centers with insatiable needs for power and water.
If you are looking at the headline data in the government’s economic report, it is easy to miss the artificial intelligence investment boom.
A strong majority of Americans oppose AI data centers being constructed in their local area, according to a recent Gallup poll.
Public sentiment towards AI has taken a sharp negative turn, with recent polling revealing that a strong majority of Americans believe the technology is advancing too rapidly.
Breitbart News on Monday hosted Interior Secretary and National Energy Dominance Council Chairman Doug Burgum for a policy discussion titled “Harnessing American Power,” during which Burgum said he is confident in America’s technological leadership but concerned about barriers to building AI data centers.
Residents of an upscale Georgia subdivision first suspected something was wrong when their water pressure began dropping unexpectedly last year. The investigation their complaints prompted revealed the startling truth about a gigantic data center built near their homes.
The United States must rapidly expand its energy sources to beat China and lead the AI race, Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday.
Voters in a Milwaukee suburb on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a measure that would restrict future data centers.
An Indianapolis, Indiana city councilor on Monday said his home was shot in what may be a politically motivated attack over a proposed data center in the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood.
Sam Altman’s OpenAI announced a partnership with North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) on Wednesday as the AI company accelerates its data center construction efforts across the United States.
Enterprise software and AI giant Oracle is reportedly preparing to slashs thousands of jobs as it grapples with financial pressures stemming from its massive AI data center expansion effort.
