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
• Virginia’s Data Center Alley Reveals Big Tech’s Vision for America - CD 09.05.26 515693
• Maryland Residents to Pay $1.6 Billion More in Power Bills Due to Out-of-State Data Centers: Complaint - CD 08.05.26 515695
• Mr. Wonderful’s Utah Data Center Will Be More Than Twice as Big as Manhattan - Mother Jones 08.05.26 515566
• ‘Shame! Shame! Shame!’: Local Residents Furious After Shark Tank Billionaire’s Data Center Approved in Utah - CD 05.05.26 515420
• California Will Soon Have More Than 300 Data Centers. Where Will They Get Their Water? - Inside Climate News 29.04.26 515615
• Maine Gov. Mills Ripped for Veto of Landmark AI Data Center Moratorium - CD 24.04.26 514581
• Maine Presses Pause on Large Data Centers. Will Other States Follow Its Lead? - Inside Climate News 15.04.26 514077
• Policymakers Must Act to Protect Louisianans from Billions in Data Center Driven Costs - UCS 14.04.26 513886
• Maine Gov. Mills Urged to Sign ‘Nation-Leading’ AI Data Center Moratorium - CD 14.04.26 513670
• As Data Centers Test Michigan’s Grid, It’s Time to Strengthen Clean Energy Standards—Not Abandon Them - UCS 13.04.26 513889
• Data Center Boom Reaches West Georgia, Raising Questions Amid Mounting Opposition - Inside Climate News 13.04.26 513752
• The Actual Economic Impact of Data Centers on a Place? That’s a Secret - Mother Jones 13.04.26 513599
• What Is the Economic Impact of Data Centers? It’s a Secret - Inside Climate News 10.04.26 513754
• Cities and the data centres investment boom - C40 Centre 09.04.26 514681
• States are struggling to meet their clean energy goals. Data centers are to blame - Ap News 09.04.26 513283
• AI infrastructure growth threatens water-stressed Thai regions - Mongabay 08.04.26 514053
• New Software Could Cut Cooling Energy Use by 25% in Data Centers - ENN 08.04.26 513595
• Small Wisconsin City Overwhelmingly Passes First-of-Its-Kind Measure Restricting AI Data Centers - CD 08.04.26 513249
• Two Wildly Different Data Centers Reveal a ‘Fork in the Road’ on How to Meet Electricity Demand - Inside Climate News 26.03.26 512303
• US lawmakers push for pause in data centres until AI safeguards in place - Al Jazeera 26.03.26 511852
• With First-of-Its-Kind Bill, Sanders and AOC Propose Moratorium on New AI Data Centers - CD 25.03.26 511933
• Forests, Not Data Centers: A Better Plan for Rural Prosperity - CD 25.03.26 511926
• Data centres are military targets now - Intercept 20.03.26 511989
• 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 511902
• Virginia Democrats Fail to Reach Compromise on Data Center Tax Exemption - Inside Climate News 12.03.26 511454
• 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