How the red-hot AI data center boom is igniting demand for a new, lucrative career path: Trade workers

While anxiety around AI replacing white-collar jobs has reached a fever pitch, the data center boom is creating lucrative ...

Big data centers are raising alarm. Now residents are spotting the small ones, too.

A proposal to build a new data center in Inver Grove Heights, between South St. Paul’s airport and nearby residential areas, has neighbors nervous. The center would take up part of a 14-acre lot ...
The Mercury

Model data center zoning ordinances coming to the fore

With new data center proposals popping up like spring bulbs, both residents and municipal officials alike can feel ...
Wisconsin Watch

Local data center critics praise Microsoft’s pledge to stop using NDAs, but remain skeptical

Companies typically don’t make announcements about building community trust unless those communities are already pushing back pretty hard,’ one environmental group says.

N.J. town sued for plan that could build huge data center instead of affordable housing

Housing advocates say the town's plan unfairly allows a developer to bypass affordable housing requirements in favor of a ...

How Texas became ground zero for AI data centers reshaping the energy industry

Texas could be the world's largest data center hub in a couple of years. Here's why data centers are being planned near ...
Construction Dive

New York City’s data center opportunity may lie on the ‘edge’: panel

Demand for data center construction is colliding with the city’s aging power grid, according to a New York Build 2026 panel session.

Wendell leaders to consider hold on data center construction, possibly joining others in central NC

Leaders in the town told WRAL News that while there currently aren’t any plans to build a data center, they want to get a ...