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A groundbreaking was held June 1 for the $16-billion Saline Barn, a data center project already under construction and cited by Detroit-based general contractor Walbridge as the single largest project ...

AMORY – Work for a Bitcoin mining operation is underway on a 5-acre lot alongside Waterway Drive next to the Jimmy Bost Training Center. The project, which is through Odessa, Texas-based company Gawk ...

Driven by the artificial intelligence boom, developers are planning to invest over $30 billion in large-scale data centers across Kentucky. These energy-intensive projects have raised environmental ...

As widespread public skepticism surrounds a growing number of data center projects in New Mexico to support artificial intelligence, Oracle is launching a new ad campaign touting the economic, ...

NEW FLORENCE, Mo. — In the quiet town of New Florence, Missouri, residents say they can already hear the future moving in. “Listen, you can hear the bulldozers running down there right now,” longtime ...

Conservationists are sounding the alarm that an iconic piece of Eastern Sierra scenery could be devastated by an open-pit gold mine if a newly resubmitted project is approved outside the town of ...

A massive data center project planned in Mesa is moving forward. Mesa Planning Commission members cast their votes on May 13 in a quiet and nearly empty chamber, ending a 10-minute meeting with a ...

Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. is a policy reporter at The Verge ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — Happening on Thursday, another neighborhood meeting is expected to be packed as residents will hear more about Project Taurus. For those community members looking to ...

Artificial intelligence is setting off the biggest infrastructure buildout since the early internet boom. Only this time, the stakes are larger, the power demands are higher, and the local pushback is ...