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Vague promises about jobs for locals and limits on residents’ ability to sue over quality of life issues like noise are the top concerns expressed by experts over Lancaster city’s community benefits ...

Xcel Energy submitted a proposal to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission aimed at addressing rising concerns about the growth of its business with data center customers. The energy provider said ...

Artificial intelligence company Nota — whose clients include organizations like The Boston Globe and the Institute for Nonprofit News — is scrapping its network of local news sites after learning that ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A massive data center planned for the town of Alabama in Genesee County is getting significant local pushback — and the company behind the multibillion-dollar center is ...

PARKER, Colo. — A Parker data center being built for a national data center developer headquartered in Centennial is nearing the finish line. Flexential’s data center in Parker will be its largest in ...

The town of Apex said about 22,000 residents may have had their data compromised in a cybersecurity attack in July 2024. The town announced Monday it has secured the stolen information with the help ...

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming ...

Tech companies are running into resistance from neighbors and may not be able to build at the pace they promised investors. By Lydia DePillis The torrential wave of data center construction for ...

Detroit — Detroit officials have received a proposal to build a data center on 14.4 acres of city-owned land on the city's east side, even as some are calling on the mayor to impose a moratorium on ...

In February 2025, about a month after President Trump began his second term in office, the Interior Department notified a few dozen employees that it was involuntarily placing them on paid leave and ...

CHICAGO — As large data centers burn electricity as fast as some small cities, utilities and advocates are looking for ways to ensure they’re not passing the buck for related infrastructure costs to ...