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What to know about the local backlash against the booming data center industry, the era of me-first energy and more climate news. By Claire Brown The backlash against energy-guzzling data centers has ...

Data centers are not new to Texas, but the projects seeking to locate here in the coming years are much bigger and more numerous than ever before, according to data shared exclusively with the Houston ...

A nationwide backlash against artificial intelligence data centers has a new ally: the leopards of the Nashville Zoo. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscription Get exclusive reporting, live Q&As ...

A proposed data center next to Nashville Zoo is facing opposition from the zoo, local officials and the broader community. Nashville Zoo has started an online petition against the data center, citing ...

One of the world’s biggest data center projects was designed to be nearly three times the size of Manhattan, stretching across multiple Utah sites. But intense local backlash in Box Elder County has ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Data centers and artificial intelligence are at the center of a growing debate across the country — are they worth the advanced technology? Data centers are what fuel AI ...

Just when you thought the AI data center boom couldn’t get any crazier, Meta has gone and built data centers in tents. The strategy appears to borrow in equal parts from Tesla and xAI. In a bid to cut ...

Denver just unanimously voted to halt new AI data center construction for a year. Skagit County in Washington State passed a six-month moratorium on data centers. Seattle is considering a ban of its ...

Artificial intelligence data centers are on the verge of reaching their limits. To meet ballooning demand, chipmakers like Nvidia Corp. are churning out ever more powerful chips, requiring a new ...

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich is looking to create more transparency around the United States' data center boom with a new, trackable website. In April, Brockovich launched a website called ...

The data center fight has come to Georgia, and from the governor's race to private industry, communities across the state will have to prepare to navigate what a new data center could mean for their ...