After voting down two amendments Monday that would have added provisions frequently demanded by residents who live in communities where data centers are being proposed, the state House of Delegates ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WBTW) — An effort by some lawmakers to tightly regulate future data centers built across South Carolina met with mixed reviews Tuesday by industry leaders. If approved, S. 867 would ...

The city of Columbiana passed new zoning restrictions aimed at gaining more control over proposed data centers.

Behind every AI system are data centers, which are massive physical facilities whose environmental footprint is now substantive enough to provoke political conflict, public resistance and regulatory ...

Texans from Waco to Harlingen are raising concerns over how much energy and water data centers are poised to use. Local officials, some enticed by a tax boon, say they have little power to stop the ...

Tech companies are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions and other pollution.

The pause will be reconsidered in June and can be extended. The board plans to get community input to implement design standards for data centers moving forward.

Wisconsin Democratic lawmakers on Thursday proposed legislation that would put a moratorium on data center construction.

For decades, the data center was a centralized place. As AI shifts to an everyday tool, that model is changing. We are moving toward a world of distributed data centers.