Tighter zoning and power limits in Northern Virginia are pushing data center developers to other regions across the state.

Some space industry leaders — including Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos — believe the answer could be in orbit, via space-based data centers. That idea has gained attention in recent weeks. Musk is ...

The New Orleans City Council passed a yearlong ban on data centers in New Orleans and began an effort to clarify zoning ...

With community opposition growing, data center backers are going on a full-scale public relations blitz. Around Christmas in ...

AI mega data centers are being announced at a record pace, but many projects may stall or collapse due to power, permitting, financing, and backlash.

S&P Global Market Intelligence recently released its 2026 US Datacenter and Energy Report, which summarizes the forces that ...

Those dynamics are examined in a new peer-reviewed study titled Power for AI Data Centers: Energy Demand, Grid Impacts, Challenges and Perspectives, published in Energies. The research finds that AI ...

The U.S. Department of Energy used the Federal Power Act on Monday to allow data centers within the regional grid operated by PJM Interconnection, including those in Virginia, to use generators at PJM ...

Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.

Meta and Musk's suite of companies announced new investment projections in Q4 earnings reports while pursuing different road ...

The tech giant has spent more than $6 million on TV ads in state capitals and Washington, with the message that data centers create jobs.

The Department of Energy is allowing grid operators PJM and ERCOT to take extraordinary steps to avoid blackouts as winter ...