The Arizona Republic used air quality records to estimate how much energy could be guzzled by data centers in Maricopa County ...

They form the backbone of social media platforms, e-commerce sites and other technologies. They pay big tax bills but suck up ...

We set out to identify every data center in Maricopa County's energy capacity and identify how water use varied among ...

Data centers seem to be popping up everywhere, with big tech companies proposing to build them on farmland, old golf courses, downtowns and industrial parks. Many of the proposed developments are huge ...

As AI increases demand for data centers, many will get built in dense metropolitan areas close to where people live and work.

Part one of our Keep Calm and Count the Kilowatts series showed how AI prompts are only a small portion of a person's daily power use. Part two explored how AI’s power, water and carbon footprints ...

Data centers are easy targets. They require large amounts of water, electricity, and land. They’re an eyesore. Of the 3,907 ...

Massive data center proposals are often developed in secret. Wisconsin has now joined several states with legislative proposals to make the process more transparent.

One major catch: the developer put the communities on a ticking clock, telling them they had 48 hours to commit; with half a ...