Trump recently signed an executive order encouraging companies to pay for their own infrastructure instead of hooking into the grid (though there’s nothing really binding about it). Those factors have led to more power plants getting built alongside data centers—but those plants are often leaning on dirty-burning fuel sources because they are quick to build and scale.

AI innovations have long promised productivity at scale, powered by breakthroughs in underlying technologies such as large language models (LLMs), aiding state-of-the-art applications to reason with remarkable fluency. Yet as AI adoption deepens, the ...

On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced that a large collection of tech companies had signed on to what it’s calling the Ratepayer Protection Pledge. By agreeing, the initial signatories—Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI ...

Oregon communities are making way for 9,100 acres of new data centers, including the state’s first “exascale” project — a gargantuan multibillion-dollar installation the size of 1,000 football fields that Amazon hopes to build near the small city ...

New data centers can lead to higher electric bills and lock in aging, outdated coal plants. But a Google project in Minnesota takes a different approach: The tech giant is paying to build enough clean power that existing customers won’t foot the bill ...

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Documents show that one of Google’s new data centers would be powered by a natural gas plant that emits millions of tons of emissions each year—an increasingly common trend in the industry. A new data center being built with investments from Google ...