Microsoft wants to design more efficient data centers using materials that allow electricity to flow with zero resistance. If ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced an initiative to prevent its data centers from harming the areas where they’re built. Brad Smith, the tech giant’s vice chair and president, detailed the program in a ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — The Gaines Township Planning Commission has again postponed a meeting to consider the rezoning of a Microsoft-owned property for data center development. The public hearing ...

President Trump was right about Microsoft — but he only leaked part of the story. Microsoft is changing its approach to building massive data centers for artificial intelligence, unveiling what it ...

Artificial intelligence is colliding with a very old constraint: the electric grid. As Microsoft races to build out massive AI data centers across the United States, communities are increasingly ...

Microsoft says it will ask to pay higher electricity bills in areas where it’s building data centers, in an effort to prevent electricity prices for local residents from rising in those areas. The ...

Microsoft indicated on Tuesday that it plans to pay more for electricity used to fuel artificial intelligence data centers so that residents don't have to bear the brunt of the costs. Brad Smith, vice ...

Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith laid out a plan Tuesday to reduce the tech giant’s impact on electricity bills and water resources amid growing local opposition across the country to AI ...

Microsoft said that consumers won't pay more when the software maker sets up data centers and committed to replenish more water than it uses. Utility prices have climbed across the U.S. as tech ...

Microsoft is pledging to address concerns related to data centers, such as energy prices and water use, as it plans to build ...