US Senate blocks bill to address data center costs
The US Senate on Wednesday blocked legislation requiring state utility regulators to consider whether large electricity users,
September 30, 2026The US Senate on Wednesday blocked legislation requiring state utility regulators to consider whether large electricity users,
September 30, 2026The Senate has failed to advance a bill that attempts to address voter worries about data centers and their impact on energy bills
September 30, 2026The artificial intelligence boom has arrived in the riskiest corners of US credit markets, where leery lenders are demanding more compensation
September 30, 2026Starship’s heat shield is made of up of an array of ceramic tiles. Each is a small component, but together they have large consequences.
September 30, 2026A group of US lawmakers including Senator Elizabeth Warren asked federal energy regulators this week to reject a more than $33 billion
September 29, 2026U.S. power developer Exus Renewables North America has acquired four large-scale solar projects in Louisiana and Wisconsin from ibV Energy Partners and
September 29, 2026Australia's Firmus said on Tuesday it had signed AI infrastructure agreements with Facebook parent Meta Platforms for graphics processing unit compute capacity at its data centre
September 29, 2026Anthropic will not appear before an Australian senate committee hearing on AI on October 1, a source familiar with the matter said, days after a disclosure that an
September 28, 2026Why the AI boom makes inflation harder to tame
September 28, 2026US Senate Republicans aim to improve their election prospects by voting on
September 25, 2026The people of northern Virginia have been living with data centers for many years. But even they are resisting new developments. And they have specific wishes for how to regulate them.
September 25, 2026The Energy Department says it will spend almost $2 billion to try to squeeze more electricity out of the nation’s aging and stressed power grid
September 24, 2026Alphabet's Google said on Thursday it will launch a prototype satellite next week in its first in-orbit test of Project Suncatcher, a research effort to explore whether space could
September 24, 2026Chinese authorities are examining the use of Broadcom’s hardware in state-backed data centres as part of a drive to boost domestic producers and reduce reliance on foreign AI
September 23, 2026Accelevation is targeting a valuation of up to $5.37 billion in its US initial public offering, the data center infrastructure company said on Tuesday, joining a
September 22, 2026When Apple's new desktop computers start shipping Tuesday, the company's executives will make an unusual pitch to corporate buyers: They are
September 22, 2026The market for highly rated corporate credit has split in two: bonds issued by AI-related firms are being met with caution, while those sold
September 22, 2026China's Alibaba has unveiled new plans for its AI model and new chip technologies, including what it claims is China's most powerful AI chip
September 22, 2026Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Monday barred the state's environmental agency from issuing new permits for data centers until
September 22, 2026World and business leaders this week will grapple with the urgent costs of climate change
September 21, 2026Warren Buffett found the most boring way to bet on AI
September 19, 2026No company has announced plans for a data center in Defiance, a city of 17,000 people surrounded by soybean fields in northwestern Ohio.
September 19, 2026Amid growing panic over the risks posed by rapidly developing AI technology, potential 2028 Democratic candidates are scrambling to respond — trying to show they are doing something, even as they acknowledge they need a reluctant Washington to step up
September 19, 2026President Donald Trump said on Friday he is engaging with Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune about bringing to the floor a
September 19, 2026The US state of Virginia is tightening permitting, commercial and environmental controls on data centers as political backlash grows against the server warehouses and the
September 18, 2026Hundreds of Missourians rally for pause of data center development, man arrested
September 18, 2026GlobalFoundries and Marvell Technology have expanded their agreement to increase production capacity for a type of semiconductor used in high-speed optical connections in data
September 17, 2026Former Sen. Sherrod Brown is asking Ohio voters to send him back to Congress just two years after they rejected him
September 17, 2026The U.S.
September 17, 2026The House has approved a bill that aims to have artificial intelligence data centers pay for their substantial energy needs
September 17, 2026A new AP-NORC poll shows Americans are growing more concerned about the environmental impacts of AI
September 16, 2026Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha signed a definitive merger agreement on Wednesday, the AI companies
September 16, 2026Not every winner in the AI race makes chips. Some sell cowboy boots.
September 16, 2026Hitachi Energy plans to build a $528 million factory in Mississippi to produce electrical transformers, marking the single-biggest
September 15, 2026Delos Data, a startup founded by veterans of Intel Corp, on Tuesday said it has raised $100 million to develop chips and software that can move
September 15, 2026President Donald Trump is playing down the need for his administration to check the development of artificial intelligence
September 13, 2026Cloud infrastructure provider Nscale is in talks with potential investors to raise about $3.5 billion in pre-IPO funding, a source familiar
September 05, 2026Civil rights groups in South Africa are calling for a pause on building more data centers until their use of water, land and electricity is investigated
September 04, 2026The U.S. pressed G20 members on Tuesday to take a hands-off approach to AI regulation and avoid creating rules for
September 02, 2026Dell Technologies on Tuesday boosted its annual revenue forecast by $25 billion while also raising its profit outlook for the second time this year, driven by
September 02, 2026India's economy is showing early signs that a long-awaited private investment revival is taking hold, broadening the growth engines and
September 01, 2026Data centers have requested roughly as much electricity across the middle swath of the United States as it takes to power every home in the country, but much of that demand may be
September 01, 2026I feel your pain vs. ‘let Data Reign’: How Trump and his VP are out of step on data centers
September 01, 2026