Meta Platforms Inc. is paying for the construction of seven new natural gas-fired plants to fuel its most power-hungry data center, increasing its reliance on fossil fuels amid a fast-moving ...

Entergy Louisiana plans to dramatically boost the amount of electricity it can generate and transmit in Richland Parish, where it is already building power plants for Meta’s massive AI data center, ...

The explosion of new data center projects in the U.S. has led to a growing backlash against the infrastructure that powers AI. Two influential politicians are now proposing a ban on any new data ...

Data work in 2026 asks for more than chart building. Professionals are expected to clean data, query databases, explain trends, and present findings clearly across business, finance, product, and ...

If the United States assumed, before attacking Iran, that the major oil producer would be reluctant to close the Strait of Hormuz for fear of blocking its own oil exports, it miscalculated. Traffic ...

As we drove through southwest Memphis, KeShaun Pearson told me to keep my window down—our destination was best tasted, not viewed. Along the way, we passed an abandoned coal plant to our right, then ...

Mississippi regulators authorized xAI to build a power plant with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in Southaven to power its nearby data centers. The company, now part of SpaceX, obtained permits to ...

PARIS, March 10 (Reuters) - France will be able to open data centres and ‌meet the needs of artificial intelligence thanks to its large energy exports, French President ⁠Emmanuel Macron said on ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Michael Thomas, CEO of Cleanview, about his new report on tech companies' plans to build their own off-grid power plants to provide energy for data centers. Companies ...

The recent increase in data centers is largely driven by the massive computing power required for artificial intelligence. New AI-focused data centers are significantly larger and more ...

Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and others signed a nonbinding pledge agreeing to cover the cost of powering AI data centers. Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping content into the ...