The Energy Secretary tells me that data centers are not responsible for Americans paying higher utility bills, but consumer advocates say Americans are footing the bill for the rapid expansion of ...

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Christopher Hernandez received funding from the National Science Foundation (grant number SPRF 1715009) for the lidar work in Puerto Bello Metzabok. Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at ...

The big picture: Nonprofit research institute Epoch AI is building one of the most detailed public records of America's data center boom. Using open-source intelligence ranging from high-resolution ...

A divided Frederick County Council voted on Tuesday to adopt a 2,615-acre data center overlay map near Adamstown. The map will govern where data centers can be built. The map, known as a Critical ...

Virginia has more data centers than any other state. Newport News has bought land as part of a pitch for another project. At least 36 states offer tax incentives to lure data center projects. At ...

This coal plant in central Pennsylvania, once the largest in the state, was shuttered in 2023 after powering the region for over 50 years. Earlier this year, wrecking crews blasted the plant’s cooling ...

Connecting the dots: By applying machine learning techniques to satellite imagery, researchers have built an unprecedented database of man-made structures across the globe. The data could reshape ...

Frederick County Council President Brad Young said the council will likely enact a data center overlay map near Adamstown that’s a hybrid of proposals from the county executive’s office and the ...

Africa’s official maps are stuck in the past, often either outdated, incomplete—or both. But governments don’t have the budgets to fix them, making it difficult to complete projects as complex as ...

SAN ANTONIO – District 6 council member Ric Galvan filed the city’s first policy proposal request to examine the exponential growth of data centers in San Antonio. Data centers, which house the ...