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The year data centers went from backend to center stage
Data centers are no longer the boring tech issue they once were....
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Alphabet to buy Intersect Power to bypass energy grid bottlenecks
Alphabet is set to pay $4.75 billion in cash, plus debt, for the data center and clean energy developer....
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Communities are rising up against data centers — and winning
If there's one thing Republicans and Democrats came together on in 2025 - at least at the local level - it was to stop big, energy-hungry data center projects....
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Trump Media is merging with fusion power company TAE Technologies in $6B+ deal
The merger would broaden Trump Media’s holdings into the nascent fusion power space while data centers clamor for more electricity amid the ongoing AI boom....
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Democratic lawmakers are investigating data centers’ impact on electricity costs
A Meta data center in Ashburn, Virginia. | Photo: Getty Images Sens. Elizabeth Warren D-MA, Chris Van Hollen D-MD, and Richard Blumenthal D-CT fired off a lette...
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Bernie Sanders calls for halt on AI data center construction — wants to ensure that the technology benefits ‘all of us, not just the 1%’
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders wants to delay AI data center projects to slow down progress, to ensure that AI will benefit the largest number of people and not ju...
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Nearly 7,000 of the world’s 8,808 data centers are built in the wrong climate, analysis find — vast majority located outside optimal temperature range for cooling, 600 in locations considered too hot
Nearly 7,000 of the world’s operational data centers are located in climates that fall outside the temperature range recommended for efficient operation, accord...
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Racks of AI chips are too damn heavy
An aerial view of a 33 megawatt data center LOWER L with closed-loop cooling system, amid warehouses on October 20, 2025 in Vernon, California. | Image: Mario T...
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Ford is starting a battery storage business to power data centers and the grid
Ford will invest about $2 billion into the new business over the next two years....
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AI data center boom could be bad news for other infrastructure projects
Improvements to roads, bridges, and other infrastructure could take a hit as data center construction accelerates....
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Google Data Centers Are Returning Nuclear Power to Tornado Country
A destructive storm in 2020 prematurely shut down Iowa’s only nuclear plant. With Google’s plans to reopen it to power nearby data centers, will extreme weather...
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Microsoft buys 3.6M metric tons of carbon removal from bioenergy plant
Microsoft's data center ambitions have imperiled its 2030 pledge to remove more carbon than it generates, making carbon removal credits all but necessary....