Does ChatGPT consume a bottle of water per email? No. Here's what we actually know about data centers and their environmental ...

Some states have offered tax incentives to attract high-tech data centers. But concerns about resources, waste and noise ...

Congressman Rob Bresnahan is proposing federal legislation aimed at giving local governments greater authority over ...

Pollution from Virginia's many data centers could cause respiratory symptoms and deaths in the region, analysis of state permits and corporate disclosures shows.

In April, environmental activist Erin Brockovich launched a website for Americans to report issues with data centers in their communities.

The Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy has played an active role in the discussion of proposed hyperscale data centers, raising concerns about project impacts on water resources, energy ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world’s largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, which also predicts their water and ...

Nashville lawmakers are pushing to restrict large-scale data centers amid mounting concern over environmental impacts.

Boston neighbhorhood frets as towering ‘dungeon’ data center looms over homes - Residents of Lowell recently secured a one ...

Microsoft has started to move dirt for its St. Joseph County data center. Learn how state and local rules manage data center ...

IMPERIAL, Calif.—The new data center proposed for a quiet city about 115 miles east of San Diego came across people’s radars in different ways. For patrons of the deli on West Aten Road, it was the ...

Hundreds of billions of dollars are flowing through the artificial intelligence industry and new AI tools seem to be popping up everywhere you look — but most Americans are not big fans of where ...