Technical

Meet the woman who’s tracking data centers in Pennsylvania

The article was produced by the Pittsburgh Media Partnership Newsroom, a branch of the Pittsburgh Media Partnership, a coalition of 33 local newsrooms to support and promote local journalism across ...
The Conversation

Google’s proposed data center in orbit will face issues with space debris in an already crowded orbit

Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti receives funding from NASA and Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). He teaches space systems engineering and mission design and management at the University ...
Fast Company

Data centers are surging—but so are the protests against them

Across the country, data center demand and construction have been skyrocketing throughout 2025. And so has local opposition to those projects. From Indiana (where a developer withdrew its application ...
Wired

The AI Data Center Boom Is Warping the US Economy

The amount of capital pouring into AI data center projects is staggering. Last week, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon reported their 2025 capital expenditures would total roughly $370 billion, ...
CNN

Why these companies want to send data centers into space

Advances in artificial intelligence are driving surging demand for data centers. But these warehouse-like facilities, containing computers that process and store data, require a lot of land and huge ...
NBC News

The sleeper issue that could play a huge role in Virginia and New Jersey — and the midterms

Leaders in both parties are locked in competition to encourage tech giants to put sprawling data centers in their states, looking for an economic leg up and an innovation edge in the early days of the ...
WDRB

Neighbors push back against proposed AI data center in Meade County

BRANDENBURG, Ky. (WDRB) -- A proposed artificial intelligence data center in Meade County is drawing pushback from nearby residents who said they want more information before the project moves forward ...
USA Today

Data overload? Why some state officials are all in on resource-hungry data centers

The ginormous LED screen flashed as dignitaries celebrated inside a bare industrial warehouse serving as New Albany, Ohio's latest data center. "Water is for streams, not streaming," it beamed to ...
CNBC

OpenAI's first data center in $500 billion Stargate project is open in Texas, with sites coming in New Mexico and Ohio

OpenAI and Oracle are betting big on America's AI future, bringing online the flagship site of the $500 billion Stargate program in Abilene, Texas. That site is the first of the Stargate program to ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Is there a data center in your community? Here's a map of the data centers in Wisconsin

A growing digital economy and use of artificial intelligence has exponentially increased the need for physical facilities to store, manage and process data. According to datacentermap.com, Wisconsin ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

There are 21 data centers in the Milwaukee area and likely more on the way. Here's what you should know about them

Data centers are physical facilities that house computer equipment to store, manage and process data. Wisconsin has 43 data centers, with 21 located in the Milwaukee area. A new data center proposal ...