#DataCenters

The NAACP sued xAI last month, alleging it violated the Clean Air Act. That apparently hasn't stopped the company from expanding its use of portable gas-fired power.

From Gizmodo: Americans Would Rather Live by a Nuclear Power Plant Than an AI Data Center

From The Register: Americans would rather have a nuclear plant in their backyard than a datacenter

From Engineering News-Record: ABC Backlog Indicator Inches Up to ‘Ten-month High’

Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers.

From IEEE Spectrum: Neutralizing the Gigascale Problem: How to Solve the Physical Power Paradox of Extreme AI Training Loads

Local residents complained of low water pressure. When the county utility investigated, it realized a data center had been draining the water system for months without paying.

CEO Masayoshi Son is considering a multibillion-dollar investment in the country as part of SoftBank's broader buildout of artificial intelligence infrastructure.

The move could save the oil company hundreds of millions, even as Texas lawmakers start looking at reining in incentives for data centers.

Publicly traded TeraWulf reported a massive Q1 loss while its AI compute business overtook traditional Bitcoin mining revenue streams.

Nonresidential specialty contractors added the greatest number of new workers, boosting employment by an estimated 12,600 positions.

In an exclusive interview on the ENR Groundbreakers podcast, CEO Greg Kelly says the business line will position the global AEC consultant to capitalize on energy demands fueled by data center projects.

Data centers require massive amounts of energy for cooling, but these copper cooling plates are optimally designed to reduce power demand.

The project would be more than twice the size of Manhattan and could consume more electricity than the entire state currently uses.

Eleven gigawatts of announced data center capacity sits frozen in 2026 without construction underway....

A UK firm has signed a deal with Nigeria's Katsina State to deploy 50,000 solar-powered smart lamp posts that collectively function as a distributed AI data center, without using electricity from the grid.

Compact microreactors have the potential to alleviate the heavy energy demands of the AI industry.

A legislator’s home shot up in Indianapolis, weakening public support and rising political resistance signal a bumpy road ahead for AI expansion.

Financing is secured and construction is underway, but power contracts behind Michigan's massive Oracle data center are now before the Michigan Court of Appeals.