Tag: data centers

For many Americans, opposition to data centers was a factor in their votes.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who is heavily invested in the AI industry, is leading the charge to allow tech companies to build data centers on the public lands he oversees.

Democrats swept Congress and won in the states. Here are the races that matter most for decarbonization, disasters, and data centers.

A local family sold an 87-acre tract to a parks foundation for $10 “to be held in trust for future use as a parkland.” Later, the city’s Economic Development Corporation sold the land to a data center developer for $10 million.

Opposition to the rapid emergence of data centers in states such as Ohio and Arizona has ginned up activism and unified voters. A range of public health issues have played into the resistance.

The governor's September permit freeze runs until the state grid operator finishes an audit, as groups sue over generators at two San Antonio sites

Tech journalist Paris Marx says AI companies have dropped climate targets and are building on-site gas plants to power data centers, and he criticizes Sen. Bernie Sanders's AI bill.

The board found regulators treated an 88.5-acre data center as barely different from the solar farm it was supposed to replace.

The Bureau of Land Management now has until September 21 to explain why it treated a 167-megawatt data center as the same project as the solar plant it originally approved.

The board found regulators reused a three-year-old environmental review written for a solar plant, never studying the data center's own effect on water, power or a threatened desert tortoise.