Economic development legislation championed by Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek is poised to dramatically expand the state’s tax breaks for data centers, which are already among the largest in the nation.

Data center projects are increasingly bumping up against homeowners wary of their impact. Those grievances have inspired once supportive state lawmakers—facing tighter budgets and higher cost of ...

There are significant disagreements about whether the industry's economic benefits are worth the combined $457 million in projected tax abatements that Nevada has doled out over the past decade.

Data centers remain the core of IT operations for many businesses, organizations and government agencies. Within those data centers are servers and other hardware, uninterruptable power supplies and ...

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Artificial intelligence companies are threatening to shun Illinois and build their most advanced data centers in Wisconsin and Indiana if the state doesn’t dilute its privacy law, the toughest in the ...

Over 200 people attended a meeting in Lyon Township to hear panelists discuss the risks of a new data center. Experts raised concerns about the significant energy and water consumption required by ...