On a dusty stretch of prairie in Abilene, Texas, anxious hardware engineers from Crusoe, a data center developer for OpenAI ...

Data center demand, both current and anticipated, has driven up operating costs for utility companies. That cost has been passed on to consumers, especially in areas with high data center activity. ...

Water reuse technology is simple, and the levers are clear. The cost of inaction in communities affected by AI data centers ...

Running a data center in 2026 feels like a constant battle against the utility bill. As infrastructure demands skyrocket to keep up with AI and big data, the operational costs of maintaining these ...

For months, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro promised a plan to blunt fast-rising energy costs in the state by pushing power-hungry AI data centers to pay their own way. Now his office has formally ...

Public backlash to data centers is growing. About 70 percent of Americans would not want a new data center built near their ...

YOU’RE WATCHING WPBF 25 NEWS NOW TO WPBF 25 NEWS INVESTIGATION. THE BOOMING BUSINESS IS BUILDING AI DATA CENTERS TO POWER. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS EXPLODING ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. WE’VE SEEN ...

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Gov. Greg Abbott is ordering state agencies to shield residential ratepayers from data center expansion costs.

Florida's decisive action: Governor Ron DeSantis signed SB 484 to ensure AI data centers pay for their own infrastructure needs, shielding residents from higher power bills. National resistance grows: ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — As outrage spreads over energy-hungry data centers, politicians from President Donald Trump to local lawmakers have found rare bipartisan agreement over insisting that tech ...