Big tech companies scored a big win in Washington state with the defeat of legislation regulating electricity rate and environmental impacts of data centers — but it lost a significant tax break for ...

When Meta officials came to Louisiana in 2024 to negotiate a potential data center project, they told state officials that they would need significant tax breaks in order to close the deal. “It was ...

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Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and others signed a nonbinding pledge agreeing to cover the cost of powering AI data centers. Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping content into the ...

Several key tech companies signed a nonbinding pledge at the White House on Wednesday that the Trump administration claims will ensure that tech companies do not pass ...

Tech giants have backed a pledge from President Donald Trump to pay more for electricity to run resource-hungry AI data centers ahead of its signing on Wednesday. Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, xAI, ...

Seven major technology companies that rely on power-guzzling data centers to train their AI models signed a pledge promising to pay more for electricity in a bid by the Trump administration to tamp ...

The Legislative Building in Olympia, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) A Washington state bill requiring utilities and data center companies to create agreements that protect rate payers from ...

A once-ambitious bill meant to reel in Washington’s exploding data center industry fell by the wayside during this short legislative session in Olympia. In short, Big Tech won, said state Sen. Sharon ...

The world’s largest tech companies are vastly understating the economic risk tied to their data center leasing deals, according to a new report from Moody’s Ratings. At least half a trillion dollars ...