In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the economics and environmental impacts of energy-hungry data centers and whether these facilities are sustainable in the age of AI. Tech giants have been ...

From AI to Facebook to Google Maps, the nation’s demand for computing power is growing, with households in the U.S. now averaging a whopping 21 devices — think smartphones, TVs, and thermostats — all ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO/AP) — Artificial intelligence is ubiquitous in the United States. The technology requires data centers to operate, and the possibility of such facilities finding a home in ...

The Trump administration issued a proposal late Thursday that aims to help AI data centers get connected to the electric grid more quickly. Energy Secretary Chris Wright sent the proposal to the ...

On a quiet road in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, not far from the field where George Washington’s starving soldiers waited out the winter in 1778, sits the headquarters for PJM Interconnection, the ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have required data centers to report how much water they use. New data centers have been rapidly proliferating in California and other western ...

AES laid out two resource plans for how it will add energy capacity over the next 15 years, including one if data centers come online. AES plans to file the plan on Oct. 31 to get approval from the ...

"Directions to 255 USA Parkway," Brian Armon asked his phone's AI assistant, which responded with a virtual map and a traffic report. Armon, a commercial real estate broker, was driving to the Tahoe ...

Many welcome recent US AI expansion plans into the UK. However, alongside jubilation about billions in inward investment come troubling reservations about the environmental cost of the 95 new UK data ...

It’s not hostile super robots you should worry about—it’s the heat they’ll generate. The Stargate AI data center under construction in Abilene, Texas, on September 23, 2025. Under the baking heat of a ...

Multiple shell companies tied to a data center project in Port Washington paid handsomely for 2,000 acres of farm land. Dozens of city meetings hashed out annexations, zoning, a development agreement ...

Google recently courted the township of Franklin, Ind., so that it could construct a giant campus to house the computer hardware that powers its internet business. But the company needed to rezone ...