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As tech’s titans sprint to build a sprawling web of data centers to power the AI boom, some cities and states are racing to stop them. Maine just became the first state to pass a ban on large data ...

New data initiative from Innovate Memphis increases equitable access to trusted regional data for governments, non-profits, researchers, and residents. To democratize data it must be available in ways ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: X Residents of Ravenna, Ohio, united to stand up against Big Tech and its seemingly countless proposals to build new ...

The United States has more than 3,000 operational data centers, and that number is expected to grow substantially in the years ahead. More than 1,500 new data centers are in various stages of ...

Independent reporting you can trust. After years of failed negotiations between the states and decades of negligent water management, we now have just months for federal officials to decide how to ...

Ripple effect: Ongoing AI datacenter construction has created shortages of DRAM and NAND that manufacturers say will impact prices for years, but memory isn't the only component that datacenters ...

Brandon N. Owens is an energy infrastructure strategist and the founder of AIxEnergy. Morgan Bazilian is the director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines. The race ...

John Steinbach was shocked to receive a $281 electricity bill in January 2026—a huge spike from the roughly $100 he’d paid the previous month. “It’s just so far beyond any bill that I’ve ever had,” he ...

If a large-scale data center is built on the wooded site, it would be among the first in Florida. An aerial image shows the proposed roughly 1,300 acres for an industrial park in Citrus County, where ...

The IMF’s World Revenue Longitudinal Database (WoRLD) tracks government revenue trends since the early 1980s. This invaluable resource offers policymakers, researchers, and the public crucial insights ...