The Minooka data center would take up to 340 acres, or slightly more than Chicago’s Grant Park. It would need a 700-megawatt supply of electricity, enough for half of Chicago’s households.

Opinions expressed are those of the author. Operators are rethinking every aspect of their data centers to ensure they maintain optimal performance levels, including developing new cooling systems ...

Data centers contributed 4.7 million jobs to the US economy from 2017 to 2023, a PwC study says. Most of those jobs were attributed to "the multiplier effect," a standard and controversial model.

The country poured billions into AI infrastructure, but the data center gold rush is unraveling as speculative investments collide with weak demand and DeepSeek shifts AI trends. A year or so ago ...

AI, other key factors are feeding a continued expansion and hunger for data center development, in spite of certain challenges. The data center industry experienced record growth in 2024 ...

Data centers are the dedicated areas few ever see that enable the technology we see, touch and listen to. They can be huge and loud, but they employ relatively few people. In this special report ...

Microsoft Corp. has walked away from new data center projects in the US and Europe that would have amounted to a capacity of about 2 gigawatts of electricity, according to TD Cowen analysts ...

HOLLY RIDGE, La.—Manufacturers have passed over this patch of farmland for nearly two decades, a string of setbacks that left this one of the poorest corners of Louisiana. A quarter of the ...

There’s a power crunch looming as AI and cloud providers ramp up data center construction. But a new report suggests that a solution lies beneath their foundations. Advanced geothermal power ...

A couple of years ago, the cities of Cleburne and Alvarado used less energy in a year than a single data center proposed for the area is likely to consume. It’s in Sen. Phil King’s North ...

BSO’s new data center unit, DataOne, is expanding into the US and developing a data center for European cloud firm Nebius. Nebius this week announced plans to develop a new 300MW data center in New ...

Global power demand from data centers will increase 50% by 2027 and by as much as 165% by the end of the decade compared with 2023, according to a recent report from Goldman Sachs Research The ...