AI data centers are turning to heavy equipment maker Caterpillar for gas generators instead of waiting for permits to connect to the electrical grid, says Marketplace contributor Daniel Ackerman.

NextEra Energy is a leader in developing power generation capacity. It's a key power supplier to leading tech companies, including Alphabet and Meta Platforms. It aims to develop data center campuses ...

ASHBURN, Va.—Loudoun County’s growth into a mecca for one of the largest infrastructure build-outs in American history kicked into gear when Buddy Rizer taped a list of companies to his office door.

The spillover from a ransomware attack on one of the largest government contractors in the United States keeps getting bigger: More than 25 million people have now had personal data stolen in the hack ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has said that major technology companies developing artificial intelligence data centers will have to cover their electricity needs under what he called a newly negotiated ...

The Trump White House wants tech companies to publicly commit to ensuring that their data centers won’t raise electricity prices, stress local water supplies, or complicate grid reliability, Politico ...

Microsoft has acknowledged growing concerns about the lack of transparency in data center development. Tech companies in Wisconsin have been criticized for using anonymous LLCs and non-disclosure ...

The president said he had negotiated a deal with tech giants to cover the energy costs of data centers, but offered few details. Experts said such pledges could prove difficult in practice. By Brad ...

President Donald Trump will meet with executives from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle and OpenAI at the White House next week. They will sign a pledge to supply their own power for their ...

Eric Rimkeit, director of marketing with Supplyframe, discusses the impact that the wave of new data centers, in support of advances in artificial intelligence, is having on makers of high-tech ...

AI data centers are essential to winning the global AI race — but most communities don’t want them in their backyards. It’s easy to see why. These facilities are enormous, resource-intensive and often ...

Power, rather than compute, is fast becoming the limiting factor in scaling AI data centers. That shift has prompted Peak XV Partners to back C2i Semiconductors, an Indian startup building ...