Saudi Arabia’s Futuristic Megacity Runs Into Dilemma: Why Build Housing When You Can Build a Data Center?

While Saudi Arabia broke ground on the project in 2022, it has been plagued with delays, setbacks, and sizable budget ...
The Christian Science Monitor

As tech companies race to build data centers, more communities are pushing back

Concerns about electricity bills and local impacts are fueling bipartisan opposition to the massive data centers that power the digital economy, from cloud services to AI chatbots. In Wisconsin, as in ...
Virginia Business

Google could spend $3B building Botetourt data centers

This summer, Botetourt County announced Google had purchased the parcel at the industrial park for about $14.06 million and ...
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UK company wants to build a data center that will heat downtown Lansing

The British company Deep Green wants to build a data center in downtown Lansing on the site of two seldom-used municipal parking lots, across the street from a Wendy’s and an oil change place and the ...
MIT Technology Review

Data centers are amazing. Everyone hates them.

In these politically divisive times, there’s one thing we all agree on—we don’t want a giant data center in our backyard. Behold, the hyperscale data center! Massive structures, with thousands of ...
Yahoo

'Data Center Basics' meeting draws a large crowd

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 14—AUSTIN, Minn. — About 100 people showed up to get the basics on data centers — the new development topic that's sweeping ...