Amazon is building a natural-gas-burning power plant in Pecos County, Texas, for a large AI data center project that would emit approximately 33 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, making it amon…
California's economy grew at a 3.7% annual pace in the first quarter of 2026, the second-fastest among U.S. states, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. The growth was driven by the info…
President Donald Trump defended data centers as "tremendously important for the economics" and "could be bigger than oil," opposing local moratoriums in Texas and New York despite widespread bipartisa…
Amazon's planned data center in Texas will emit 33 million tons of CO₂ annually from an on-site natural gas plant, making it the largest climate polluter in the U.S., according to TechCrunch. The faci…
The United States has at least 82 data center-linked gas generators in development or proposal, which could emit as much pollution in one year as half the passenger cars in the U.S., according to a Ne…
Amazon is building a 7.65-gigawatt gas power plant in Pecos County, Texas, to power an AI data center, which would emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, making it the largest pollution sour…
The U.S. electrical grid is operating at its limit due to rapid industrial growth, extreme weather, and surging electricity demand, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. The largest power transm…
Cipher Digital (NASDAQ: CIFR) delivered initial high-performance computing capacity at its Black Pearl data center campus in Texas in early August, marking the start of rent for contracted HPC capacit…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the Public Utility Commission and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to audit all proposed data center grid connections, as residents and a Buddhist monastery in …
EdgeConneX is exploring up to $4 billion in debt financing for a data center project in Bastrop County, Texas, according to people familiar with the matter. The company filed plans in June 2026 for tw…
Governor Greg Abbott directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas and ERCOT to require grid audits for data center connections, citing grid stability and reliability concerns. The audits will requi…
Arizona, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Texas are rolling back data center tax incentives, with Arizona enacting a three-year moratorium on new sales tax exemption applications from July 1, 2026, through…
Nvidia has been identified as the undisclosed investment-grade tenant behind two 15-year leases at Hut 8's Beacon Point AI campus in Nueces County, Texas, with a combined base value of $19.6 billion t…
Willie Nelson, 93, urged Americans to fight data centers invading rural Texas farmland, citing light pollution and water theft. The country music legend warned against losing control of food and water…
Willie Nelson, the 93-year-old country icon and Farm Aid co-founder, published an open letter Tuesday opposing AI data centers proposed near his hometown of Abbott, Texas, calling them 'loud, water th…
Country music legend Willie Nelson, 93, has publicly opposed the construction of AI data centers near his tiny Texas hometown of Abbott, calling them 'water-thieving' and 'invading' rural land in a so…
Meta and BlackRock announced a $14 billion joint venture to build and operate a one-gigawatt AI data center in El Paso, Texas, with BlackRock holding an 80 percent controlling stake and Meta holding 2…
Nvidia signed leases worth up to $50 billion for Hut 8's Beacon Point AI data center campus in Nueces County, Texas, a facility designed to house hundreds of thousands of its own graphics processing u…
Meta and BlackRock are partnering on a $14 billion data center campus in El Paso, Texas, with BlackRock's managed funds taking an 80% ownership stake and Meta retaining 20%. The 1-gigawatt facility, e…
Meta is investing $10 billion into an AI data center campus in El Paso, Texas, with plans to bring it online by 2028 at a capacity of 1 gigawatt, a sixfold increase from an initial $1.5 billion commit…