Higher risk, lower growth, and declining investment is how the UN’s trade agency, UNCTAD, sums up the global economic outlook ...

Higher risk, lower growth, and declining investment is how the UN’s trade agency, UNCTAD, sums up the global economic outlook ...

The cost for the power Virginia’s booming data center businesses use is on track to shift in a big way to other ratepayers, a legislative watchdog says. Helped by a nearly $1 billion tax break ...

Big data centers connecting to power grids is now one of the greatest near-term risks to reliability, according to a rare warning by the US agency charged with overseeing the sector.

But lawmakers also gave Big Tech a win, extending the expiration of the state’s sales tax break for data centers on purchases of computers, servers, software and cooling and energy equipment.

The intra-DFL rift between labor unions whose members build data centers and progressives skeptical of corporate giveaways was on full display at the Capitol last week as lawmakers considered ...

How your electric bill may be paying for big data centers’ energy use By Ari Peskoe , Harvard University June 5, 2025 Ari Peskoe , Harvard University and Eliza Martin , Harvard University ...

If state regulators allow utilities to follow the standard approach of splitting the costs of new infrastructure among all consumers, the public will end up paying for data centers’ power.

Activity in state legislatures — and competition for data centers — has been brisk in recent months, amid an intensifying buildout of the energy-hungry data centers.