As the data center boom takes hold, lawmakers in dozens of states are looking to blunt the impact of high electricity prices.

The moratorium halts development of any new data center that would use more than 20 megawatts of electricity or would be within 500 feet of residential homes.

Advocacy groups urged Louisiana regulators to investigate how Meta's complex financial setup for its Hyperion data center could affect everyday ratepayers.

Alcoa, the Pittsburgh-based aluminum giant, intends to sell 10 of its closed or curtailed sites for use as data centers. Alcoa CEO Bill Oplinger announced the sell-off Tuesday at the BMO Global Metals,

It’s unclear how many farmers have received such offers, but rural lands have been increasingly targeted as demand for data centers to power AI has grown—most recently projected to increase by 165 percent by 2030. Globally, 40,000 acres are needed to support data center growth over the next five years, Hines Research estimated.

Hyperscalers are vastly understating their committed spending on data centers by omitting leases that haven't yet commenced, according to a new Moody's report.

Among the many problems posed by the rapid proliferation of data centers around the world is the strain on local water supplies. These facilities need plenty of water for cooling the vast arrays of servers and other computing equipment,