Data centers are making headlines, but the unremarkable facades of these facilities offer little hint of the powerful technology housed inside. As the demand for AI grows, the data centers that power our digital world are needed to process the massive ...

Data centers are beginning to switch from air to liquid cooling. Liquid cooling is more effective at drawing heat away from sophisticated chips and could save energy. The sector will sort out which liquid technology—cold plate or immersion–will prevail ...

A 10-year moratorium on state-level AI regulation included in President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” has brushed up against a mounting battle over the growth of data centers. On Thursday, Representative Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican ...

Across the country, data center demand and construction have been skyrocketing throughout 2025. And so has local opposition to those projects. From Indiana (where a developer withdrew its application to build a data center on more than 700 acres of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andrew Leahey is an attorney and law professor that covers tax. Aldie, VA - January 20: On what was recently farmland, Amazon data centers have been built as close as 50 feet from ...

Each time you ask an AI chatbot to summarize a lengthy legal document or conjure up a cartoon squirrel wearing glasses, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. The data centers that power artificial ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — If utility company Portland General Electric gets the approval of regulators, 2025 will be the fifth year since 2020 where customers saw a rate increase. But it will also coincide with growing concerns that high-tech infrastructure ...

Big Tech has data centers in every part of Oregon. There are Amazon’s hulking concrete structures amid the fields near Boardman. And the vents billowing steam from Google’s operation on the Columbia River waterfront in The Dalles. Meta has your ...

A data center complex bankrolled by Blackstone in Fayetteville, Georgia in October 2024. Correspondent As the AI boom continues to escalate, states have rushed to entice data centers with juicy tax breaks. Data centers not only provide cloud based storage ...

About 1,500 federally funded health centers that serve millions of low-income people face significant financial challenges, their leaders say, as the government shutdown compounds other cuts to their revenue. Some of these community health centers may have ...