With data center developers in Texas and most other states now commonly deploying fossil fuel generators as backup power sources, a nascent industry from the renewable side of power generation—battery ...

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the economics and environmental impacts of energy-hungry data centers and whether these facilities are sustainable in the age of AI. Tech giants have been ...

Want to see the future of the U.S. economy? It’s unfolding today in Abilene, Texas. There, on an 875-acre site, the Stargate consortium led by OpenAI is building a massive data center campus. Once its ...

Data center capacity has become a barometer for both the health of the tech market and the risk of an A.I. bubble. By Ian Frisch Trillions of dollars are flowing into the data centers needed to power ...

2025 revealed how data center outages, from fires and mechanical failures to hyperscale cloud region events, can cascade ...

A few weeks ago, about 50 real estate developers, union leaders, elected officials and tech-company representatives gathered at a union hall on the South Side to discuss the four-letter word in the ...