The AI and data center boom is here, but communities nationwide are pushing back. Here is a closer look at the industry and ...

The biggest data center companies in 2026 include server, storage, network, liquid cooling, colocation, AI, chips, hardware and cloud data center providers.

Readers sent more than 300 questions on data centers. Here we answer why so many projects have sprung up and why they use so much water and power.

If the 2010s were about spinning every last bit out of hard disk drives, the mid-2020s are about something more existential: whether the relentless rise of AI—and the heat, power, and density ...

A startup has unveiled a floating wind platform designed to host offshore AI data centers powered by wind turbines and battery storage.

CRN breaks down the 20 hottest cloud infrastructure companies of 2026 paving the AI highway—from AWS, Microsoft and Oracle to CoreWeave, Nutanix and Vultr. The demand for cloud infrastructure is ...

Data centers—the warehouse-sized buildings that store photos, stream movies and train artificial intelligence—are voracious consumers of electricity. A surprisingly large share of that power never ...

Dominion Energy says its upcoming $11-a-month rate hike is driven by grid upgrades and inflation — not Virginia’s rapidly growing data-center industry. Critics note that Virginia hosts one of the ...

The rise of artificial intelligence, cloud platforms, and data processing is driving a steady increase in global data center electricity consumption. While running computer servers accounts for the ...

Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure are the most prominent cloud storage providers. They operate massive ...

Researchers have proposed a zeolite-based “thermal battery” system that could cut the electricity data centers spend on cooling by up to 86%, according to a preprint published on ChemRxiv. The finding ...