The Minooka data center would take up to 340 acres, or slightly more than Chicago’s Grant Park. It would need a 700-megawatt supply of electricity, enough for half of Chicago’s households.

Opinions expressed are those of the author. Operators are rethinking every aspect of their data centers to ensure they maintain optimal performance levels, including developing new cooling systems ...

A Houston-based company is planning to construct a massive 50,000-acre data center hub near Laredo, Texas, dubbed "Data City, Texas." The facility is set to become "the world’s largest behind ...

The country poured billions into AI infrastructure, but the data center gold rush is unraveling as speculative investments collide with weak demand and DeepSeek shifts AI trends. A year or so ago ...

Data centers are flooding into Northern Nevada so quickly that Reno's planning commission has asked the city council to hold off on approving more until it can fully understand all possible effects.

Digital Realty has launched a new data center in Frankfurt, Germany. The company this week announced the opening of a new facility FRA18 at its Digital Park Fechenheim campus along Hanauer Landstrasse ...

In Castroville, west of San Antonio, technology giant Microsoft Corp. is turning swaths of empty farmland into sprawling data centers. In the Hill Country, east of that project, two data ...

Residents gave Porter County officials an earful on data centers during two consecutive meetings Tuesday. Union Township School Corp. Superintendent John Hunter doesn’t want a large data center ...

For example, the increasing demand for artificial intelligence has led to a rise in the need for data centers, which provide the computing storage capacity required for AI. However, these data ...

The recent surge in artificial intelligence has prompted data center investment in Nashville and other key markets across the U.S. Meta's $1B Gallatin data center is now online, with more ...

These plants generate 45% of our nation’s carbon-free electricity and have an average capacity of 93%, making nuclear power particularly well-suited to powering data centers for companies with ...

An Ohio town known as a hub for the burgeoning data center industry may soon have one or more new natural gas-fired power plants to support the area’s need for energy. City officials in New ...