In Indonesia, parts of a data center campus an hour outside Jakarta have been put on hold. In North Dakota, talks dragged on so long with a potential tenant that Microsoft lost exclusivity ...

One of the poorest cities in Michigan has a proposed $3 billion data center as a potential lifeline — but environmentalists ...

The Mishawaka Common Council updated a 2014 ordinance to solidify Mishawaka Utilities' claim to provide water and sewer services to the planned Microsoft data center ... going to have to ...

But planning commissioners in one Twin Cities community have cited demands on water infrastructure ... a reliable cooling system. Microsoft estimates that a data center that uses 40 megawatts ...

Microsoft recently said it may "strategically pace" its data center plans ... worth reading closely what Walsh wrote about how things have changed. "In recent years, demand for our cloud and ...

Sprawling, power-thirsty data centers have ... when Microsoft pulled the plug on planned data centers in Ohio last month, it added to questions about whether the nascent data center boom had ...

That water is evaporated and does not necessarily return to the local watershed. Meanwhile, the biggest U.S. data center operators have pledged a green future. Scientists wonder how the tech ...

AI data centers also pose other environmental threats, such as high water consumption ... Some hyperscalers, like AWS and Microsoft, have pulled back on data center projects in the last several ...