Politicians, energy providers, Big Tech and climate activists are talking about data centers. Here’s what to know.

WBRC is continuing our coverage on the data center boom as leaders here weigh plans for one in Bessemer. What’s it like to ...

Data centers have been a big topic across the nation over the past few years. There's been a push for more data centers in the Midwest, specifically AI data centers. In short, data centers are ...

The I-Team and ABC News are finding out how many of these facilities are in the Chicago area.

Streaming shows, storing photos in the cloud and using social media — all of these require data centers. Why are they so controversial in the communities where tech companies want to build them? Some ...

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 ...

House Bill 646 would establish a 13-member Data Center Study Commission housed within the Department of Development, dedicated to assessing the broader implications of the data centers springing up ...

Here are their responses to our questions about the $5.18 billion project.

Prime Data Center in Vernon, Calif. on Dec. 25, 2025. Prime Data Center in Vernon, Calif. on Dec. 25, 2025.Los Angeles Times—Getty Images Editor at Large Data centers are hot. Literally. In the U.S., ...

Vantage purchased more than 1900 acres of land, 672 acres of which are slated for data center construction. Just to the south and east of I-43, the City of Port Washington hugs Lake Michigan. Data ...

Our new poll reveals the early contours of an evolving political battle.

A massive $12 billion Amazon data center project is coming to northwest Louisiana, marking the largest single-company ...