At the G20 Innovation Ministerial summit on Wednesday, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick argued that global AI growth requires data centers, while about 100 students and residents protested at the …
The largest planned AI datacenter in New Jersey, DataOne in Vineland, is accused of violating federal law after thermal drone footage showed at least 45 of its 62 gas-powered generators operating with…
Bill McKibben, in an August 21 blog post, called the data center buildout an 'environmental plague,' citing a Bloomberg New Energy analysis that planned data centers will increase U.S. electricity sec…
Amazon plans to build a 7.65-gigawatt natural gas power plant in Pecos County, Texas, to power a new AI data center campus, which would be the largest gas plant in U.S. history. The facility, named 'G…
Amazon confirmed Friday it is financially backing a massive private gas power plant in Pecos County, Texas, that could become the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the US, with 35 t…
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is calling for all data centers to be powered by renewable energy by 2030, but energy analysts say the goal is unrealistic given current grid constrai…
Local backlash and reliability concerns are challenging the vision of an AI boom built quickly using large off-grid data centers, with recent setbacks including New Mexico's rejection of a gas pipelin…
Two-thirds of planned U.S. data centers are moving to rural areas, driven by AI compute demand and proximity to high-voltage power lines, but local opposition has blocked or delayed $64 billion in pro…
At least 57 off-grid natural gas plants with 73 gigawatts of combined capacity are being built to power AI data centers across the US, often bypassing environmental review. xAI's Colossus facilities i…
Dozens of large, off-grid natural gas power plants are being rapidly approved across the United States to fuel the AI industry's data center boom, often with little public scrutiny or environmental re…
AM Best warned U.S. property/casualty insurers that AI-driven data center proliferation creates underwriting risks beyond what the industry has previously faced, identifying business interruption as t…
Meta has constructed six tent-like "rapid deployment structures" outside New Albany, Ohio, to house AI data centers, cutting construction time in half by borrowing tactics from Tesla and xAI. The 125,…