A developer sued a Michigan township after it voted against a data center proposal. Cities in Ohio and Missouri have explored data center bans.

Poolside, an AI coding startup that only launched its first product a year ago, is partnering with CoreWeave Inc. to develop what would be one of the largest data centers in the US, the latest sign of an investment frenzy in infrastructure for artificial intelligence.

And that computing power has a big environmental footprint. A typical AI data center uses as much electricity as 100,000 households, and the largest under development will consume 20 times more, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). They also suck up billions of gallons of water for systems to keep all that computer hardware cool.

CoreWeave and Poolside announce partnership for a data center built on a sprawling ranch in West Texas.

Meta Platforms Inc. is building a new gigawatt-sized data center in Texas to advance its artificial intelligence efforts, the latest in a string of significant investments by the company as it looks to keep pace in the competitive AI industry.

Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is set to build a $1.5 billion AI data center in El Paso.The facility will be constructed on a 1,083

Meta Platforms said on Wednesday it would invest $1.5 billion in a data center in Texas, breaking ground at its 29th such facility globally, as the social media giant expands infrastructure to support artificial intelligence workloads.

The $8 billion project is a first for Vantage Data Centers in Wisconsin. Company President Dana Adams says the project is good for their needs.

The massive project could bring thousands of jobs, new tax revenue and millions of dollars in developer fees to Grayslake.

Bloom Energy's market cap has spiked by over 10 times in a year as the data center boom takes off and big deals are announced.