Data Centres

Data centres house IT infrastructure to power the internet we explore the AI boom, investments, water usage, and the strain on our power supply

• Google Data Centers 457440
• Data Centre Magazine 457441
• Understanding the power consumption of data centres - SOCOMEC 457455
• Data center - Wikipedia 457438
• A New Era of Data Center Development Is Like a Second Industrial Revolution - Inside Climate News 14.03.26 511363
• Ask a Scientist: A Data Center Was Proposed in My Town. Now What? - UCS 12.03.26 510868
• Data Centers Are Poised to Engulf a Pennsylvania Town - DeSmog 11.03.26 510891
• Rush to put AI data centers in space poses poorly understood dangers - Mongabay 11.03.26 510890
• Thai data center boom sparks fears of water shortage, air pollution - Mongabay 11.03.26 510888
• Trump’s Big Tech Pledge Won’t Do: Advocates Make Case for Nationwide Moratorium on Data Centers - CD 06.03.26 510685
• Few Details on Trump’s Plan for Self-Powered Data Centers - Inside Climate News 04.03.26 510922
• Big Tech Signs Trump Pledge to Pay Data-Center Power Costs. Fulfilling It Is the Hard Part - Inside Climate News 04.03.26 510921
• Google’s Response to an Iowa County’s New Data Center Requirements? Annex the Land - Inside Climate News 04.03.26 510920
• Data Centers Are Changing the Grid. Our Energy Sources Should Evolve Too - UCS 04.03.26 510869
• Grassroots Resistance to Data Centers Rises in Pennsylvania - Inside Climate News 03.03.26 510924
• Facing Its Third Data Center, an Iowa County Rolls Out Extensive Zoning Rules - Inside Climate News 01.03.26 510925
• Tech companies are building enormous data centres and reconfiguring energy infrastructure across the US, all to power the burgeoning AI industry - New Int 01.03.26 510968
• Amid Affordability Crisis, New Jersey Hands $250 Million Tax Break to Data Center - Inside Climate News 26.02.26 510930
• New datacentres risk doubling Great Britain’s electricity use, regulator says - Guardian 23.02.26 509689
• The Data Lords Are Taxing Our Water and Power to Build Their Castles - CD 22.02.26 509612
• Could a New Illinois Bill Be a Blueprint for Curbing Data Centers’ Climate Impacts? - Inside Climate News 19.02.26 509866
• ‘A Big F*ck You to Big Tech’: New Jersey Residents Defeat AI Data Center - CD 19.02.26 509617
• Data Centers Are Not a License to Drill - UCS 18.02.26 510873
• Virginia House Passes Data Center Tax Exemption, With Conditions - Inside Climate News 18.02.26 509867
• Data Center Giant Secures $14 Million Deal to Consume 40% of Pennsylvania Town’s Excess Water - CD 16.02.26 509282
• Grassroots Organizers in Wisconsin Offer Blueprint for Beating Back Data Centers - Truthout 14.02.26 509137
• Louisiana’s New Policy Allows Even More Data Center Costs to be Passed to Ratepayers - UCS 11.02.26 510874
• Musk's mega-merger of SpaceX and xAI bets on sci-fi future of data centers in space - Reuters 04.02.26 508527
• Clean Energy Can Protect Midwest Families From Data-Center Driven Energy Bill Spikes - UCS 21.01.26 510880
• Powering Data Centers with Clean Energy Could Avoid Trillions in Climate and Health Costs - UCS 21.01.26 510881
• Labour have sold out UK’s most ‘water stressed’ areas to US AI barons - Canary 06.01.26 508298
• The Data Center Boom Could Trigger Blackouts - Jacobin 11.12.25 501567
• Data centres in space: will 2027 really be the year AI goes to orbit? - Conversation 03.12.25 500281
• Maine’s First Major Data Center Project Touts Green Innovation - Inside Climate News 26.11.25 499481
• Members of America’s Largest Power Grid Can’t Agree on How to Power Data Centers - Inside Climate News 26.11.25 499480
• ‘Who Wants to Live Like This?’ Locals Fume as Meta AI Data Center Upends Entire Community - CD 24.11.25 499568
• What the datacenter boom means for America’s environment – and electricity bills - Guardian 16.10.25 494187
• Pennsylvania Community Groups Urge Officials to Restrict Data Center Development - Inside Climate News 15.10.25 494404
• Hyperscale data centres will 'turbocharge emissions' - Ecologist 14.10.25 494318
• Nationwide Backlash Brewing Against Big Tech’s Energy-Devouring AI Data Centers - CD 14.10.25 494254
• PJM Pursues Rule Change to Meet Data Center Surge. Critics Fear Gas Suppliers Could Benefit - Inside Climate News 13.10.25 494406
• Texas Grid Operators and Regulators Iron Out New Rules for Data Centers - Inside Climate News 10.10.25 494407
• The AI Data Center Boom Comes to Southeast LA - Inside Climate News 09.10.25 494408
• Despite Stiff Opposition, an Alabama City Changes Its Laws to Accommodate Data Centers - Inside Climate News 08.10.25 494405
• Underground data fortresses: the nuclear bunkers, mines and mountains being transformed to protect our ‘new gold’ from attack - Conversation 25.09.25 490650
• Citing Climate Crisis, NAACP Expresses Opposition to Massive Alabama Data Center - Inside Climate News 25.09.25 490490
• Colossal Diesel Capacity of Trump-Donor’s UK Data Centre - DeSmog 25.09.25 490464
• How Much Water and Energy do Data Centers Consume? A New Jersey Bill Demands Answers - Inside Climate News 24.09.25 490498
• Is AI Throwing Climate Change Under the Bus? - Inside Climate News 22.09.25 490497
• ‘Don’t Patronize Us’: Data Center Charm Offensive Irks Opponents in Rural Georgia - DeSmog 10.09.25 490468
• Google inks $3bn US hydropower deal as it expands energy-hungry datacenters - Guardian 16.07.25 480644
• Bessemer, Alabama, Could Face Legal Action Over Environmental Impacts From a ‘Hyperscale’ Data Center - Inside Climate News 14.07.25 480005
• Water Utility Says It Can’t Meet Demand for Alabama Data Center Without ‘Significant Upgrades’ - Inside Climate News 12.07.25 480006
• AI is gobbling up water it cannot replace – I’m working on a solution - Conversation 16.06.25 475334
• Report Highlights Community Pushback Stalling $64 Billion in Data Center Development Nationwide - Inside Climate News 19.05.25 470540
• Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas - Guardian 09.04.25 464565
• The Wheels Are Falling off Alberta’s Gas-Powered AI Data Centre Proposal - DeSmog 19.02.25 460547
• New data center threatens further water scarcity in Uruguay - Borgen Project 19.02.25 460520
• Data Centers Drive Higher Forecasts for Electric Demand in Pennsylvania, Sparking Climate Worries - Inside Climate News 15.02.25 458139
• Data centres worsen water crisis - says data - Ecologist 14.02.25 457344
• Data centres could strain Europe's power supply by 2030, report warns - Euro News 10.02.25 457442
• The Trillion-Dollar A.I. Data Center Tsunami —Coming To A Field Near You - Forbes 10.02.25 457443
• UAE to invest billions in France AI data centre - France24 07.02.25 457444
• Call to make tech firms report data centre energy use as AI booms - Guardian 07.02.25 457446
• The data-centre investment spree shows no signs of stopping - Economist 05.02.25 457445
• UK must tackle data centres’ energy use challenges to meet AI ambitions - Sustainable Views 03.02.25 457467
• Geneva’s homes will be heated by recycled energy from this revolutionary Swiss data centre - Euro News 30.01.25 457449
• Microsoft's Zero-Water Solution for Data Centre Cooling - Sustainability Magazine 11.12.24 457447
• New UCC Research Reveals Alarming Impact of Data Centres on Climate Commitments - FOE 10.12.24 457487
• Data centre energy use undermining efforts to achieve climate action plan targets - Tech Central 10.12.24 457450
• The environmental campaigners fighting against data centres - BBC 04.11.24 457472
• AI Data Centers And The New Era Of Unprecedented Demand - Forbes 28.10.24 457465
• What the data centre and AI boom could mean for the energy sector - IEA 18.10.24 457453
• Fighting back against data centers, one small town at a time - Washington Post 05.10.24 457481
• Data centre emissions are soaring – it’s AI or the climate - Conversation 02.10.24 457473
• 'Do we want fewer emissions or more Netflix?': Inside the fight against Europe's data centres - Euro News 02.10.24 457479
• The Billion-Dollar AI Gamble: Data Centers As The New High-Stakes Game - Forbes 30.09.24 457464
• Data Centers At The Heart Of The AI And Digital Economy Surge - Forbes 25.09.24 457466
• Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse? - Guardian 15.09.24 457485
• Data centres as vital as NHS and power grid, government says - BBC 12.09.24 457439
• Why the UK is Listing Data Centres as Critical Cyber Assets - Cyber Magazine 12.09.24 457463
• Under attack: The growing cybersecurity threats facing our data centres - GHD 02.09.24 457462
• Top 10: Biggest Data Centre Projects - Data Centre 14.08.24 457468
• Anger mounts over environmental cost of Google datacentre in Uruguay - Guardian 01.08.24 457480
• Not just nimbys – why data centre protests are on the rise - Raconteur 30.07.24 457448
• Data centres are guzzling up too much electricity. Can we make them more efficient? - Conversation 29.07.24 457458
• France quietly catches rivals in battle for data centre supremacy - France24 24.07.24 457484
• Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined - Guardian 23.07.24 457459
• Why Communities Are Protesting Data Centers – And How the Industry Can Respond - Data Center Knowledge 13.06.24 457478
• AI is poised to drive 160% increase in data center power demand - Goldman Sachs 14.05.24 457456
• Data centers: Can the demands for increased capacity and energy be met sustainably? - White & Case 24.04.24 457457
• AI’s energy-hungry data centres bring sustainability challenges - Sustainable Views 04.04.24 457474
• Data centre power use 'to surge six-fold in 10 years' - BBC 26.03.24 457454
• Data Centers and the Climate Crisis: A Problem Hiding in Plain Sight - Dataversity 22.01.24 457471
• Energy Consumption in Data Centres and Broadband Communication Networks in the EU - European Commission, 2024 457460
• The Cloud vs. drought: Water hog data centers threaten Latin America, critics say - Mongabay 02.11.23 457482
• Artificial intelligence is a very real data center problem - Tech Radar 18.09.23 457452
• Impact of Data Centers on Climate Change: A Review of Energy Efficient Strategies - ResearchGate 08/23 457486
• Assess the environmental impact of data centers - Tech Target 12.07.23 457469
• Data centres use almost a fifth of Irish electricity - BBC 12.06.23 457461