AUSTIN, Minn. — About 100 people showed up to get the basics on data centers — the new development topic that's sweeping the region. Hosted by the Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation (SMIF), the ...

States and communities should welcome this digital infrastructure, but only on terms that protect ratepayers, workers, water ...

Editor's note: This is the first of three feature articles Ars is publishing to explore the financial, technical, and competitive dimensions of orbital data centers. Although the idea of putting data ...

Terrestrial data centers are so 2025. We're taking our large-scale compute infrastructure into orbit, baby! Or at least, that's what Big Tech is yelling from the rooftops at the moment. It's quite a ...

PINE ISLAND, Minn. — Sometime in the spring, dirt should start moving on the north side of Cannon Falls. Now that the land use approvals and development agreement have been approved by the Cannon ...

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Senators launched a probe Tuesday demanding that tech companies explain exactly how they plan to prevent data center projects from increasing electricity bills in communities where prices are already ...

The US federal government’s central energy information agency is planning to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use, according to a letter seen by WIRED.

To hear Silicon Valley tell it, artificial intelligence is outgrowing the planet that gave birth to it. Data centers will account for nearly half of U.S. electricity demand growth between now and 2030 ...