The Minooka data center would take up to 340 acres, or slightly more than Chicago’s Grant Park. It would need a 700-megawatt supply of electricity, enough for half of Chicago’s households.

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Operators are rethinking every aspect of their data centers to ensure they maintain ...

The country poured billions into AI infrastructure, but the data center gold rush is unraveling as speculative investments collide with weak demand and DeepSeek shifts AI trends. A year or so ago ...

Microsoft has canceled leases or paused construction on several data centers in the U.S. and Europe as it taps the brakes on parts of its digital infrastructure expansion. Over the last six months ...

Data centers contributed 4.7 million jobs to the US economy from 2017 to 2023, a PwC study says. Most of those jobs were attributed to "the multiplier effect," a standard and controversial model.

Microsoft Corp. has walked away from new data center projects in the US and Europe that would have amounted to a capacity of about 2 gigawatts of electricity, according to TD Cowen analysts, who ...

AI, other key factors are feeding a continued expansion and hunger for data center development, in spite of certain challenges. The data center industry experienced record growth in 2024, with ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The Columbus area is among the top data center markets in the United States, according to a recent report. Data centers are physical facilities that store computing ...

In today’s digital world, data is more than just an asset – it's the lifeblood of every business and organization From customer information to proprietary research, organizations rely on data to drive ...

Amazon on Friday lost a fight to escape regulatory oversight for a proposed data center northwest of Minneapolis, in a skirmish that illustrates how the tech industry’s rush to invest billions ...

A couple of years ago, the cities of Cleburne and Alvarado used less energy in a year than a single data center proposed for the area is likely to consume. It’s in Sen. Phil King’s North ...

Building such facilities off Earth could have a lot of benefits. Early projects are underway. Last week, the Florida-based company Lonestar Data Holdings launched a shoebox-size device carrying ...