The data center market is exploding in 2026 as AI demand drives an influx of hardware, software and services spending that is being led by 50 of the biggest and most innovative companies in the world.

With new data center proposals popping up like spring bulbs, both residents and municipal officials alike can feel overwhelmed by both the pace and the breadth with which this new development wave is, ...

At the start of 2025, Stafford County’s economic development director, Liz Barber, predicted that data centers could go from zero to “a lot” within three years’ time. One year later, the county is ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Microsoft has had its first face-to-face meeting with Gaines Township residents after months of planning to build a data center in their community. The tech giant on Tuesday, March ...

Following a contentious, nearly six-hour-long meeting, the Yorkville City Council has OK’d further approvals for a roughly 1,000-acre data center campus that has drawn the ire of numerous area ...

The currently defunct Blue Valley Power Plant in Independence, shown Thursday, January 29, 2026, will reopen and undergo a major expansion for the planned growth of an AI data center on nearby Bly ...

The project still requires final site plan and development agreement approvals from the township. The data center will be powered by new resources, including solar, under an agreement with DTE Energy.

BROOKINGS, S.D. — Hyperscale data centers moving to upper Midwest communities is a growing concern for many rural residents. Across the region, such data centers already are in operation, are under ...

SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Less than a week after developers pulled out of plans to build a data center along Highway 290, some Spartanburg County residents began raising questions ...

Meta now plans to spend $10 billion on its AI data center in El Paso, Texas, up from a prior commitment of $1.5 billion. The data center aims to bring 1 gigawatt of capacity online by 2028. Meta is ...