Data center builds are on the rise across the country to power cloud computing and AI. Here’s how some local governments are taking action to ensure projects benefit the communities in which they are ...

The electricity needed to power new Pennsylvania data centers already in advanced stages of planning could power 11 million homes – nearly twice the total number of households in the state. Companies ...

Research and advocacy nonprofit Innovation Ohio is urging state lawmakers to take a harder line with data centers.

Data center construction and AI have been boons to Georgia's economy, but efforts to curb their growth could imperil this ...

AES-256 remains the gold standard for high-stakes data encryption. While other, more lightweight and less-energy-intensive encryption methods do exist, they operate with multiple trade-offs in ...

Indiana lawmakers made little movement on regulating data centers, as other states, counties think about moratoriums.

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence has changed the data center industry and thrust construction of giant server farms ...

Places can ask for ways to share the economic upside beyond tax revenue, like setting aside new computing power from data centers for local entities.

The proposed data center re-zoning request has been postponed yet again to the June 11 planning commission meeting as the ...

The construction jobs disappear. The long-term employment never materializes. But the electricity costs stick around forever.

Several local governments in Central Illinois are looking to create their own data center regulations as lawmakers have yet ...