The data-center hysteria is channeling the public’s inchoate fears about the rapid expansion of AI and is a flash point for ...

HOMER CITY, Pa. — Eighteen months ago, Shawn Steffee stood in a field in Indiana County and watched the smokestacks of ...

Electricity bills, water use and local opposition are changing the politics around AI infrastructure even as the Trump ...

NEW YORK >> Less than a year ago, Texas Governor Greg Abbott hailed Texas as the “epicenter of AI development.” Now, in his ...

According to a new PUC report, residential and business demand for electricity is expected to rise by less than 1% annually ...

Up and down the ballot, Pennsylvania politicians preparing for the November election are making data center criticism central to their campaigns. There are more than 120 proposed data ...

At 9:59 a.m. Monday, President Trump posted on Truth Social that communities refusing data centers “want to end up being ...

Those extra costs are often much easier for big corporations to handle than for small businesses.

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A White House AI adviser is selling data centers as economic lifelines while Berkshire's Greg Abel warns of a full-blown ...

Pennsylvania emergency rooms are keeping patients longer than most of the country, with new federal data showing the state ...

The ongoing contentious debate around data center development is not solely falling along partisan lines. The latest example is U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., backing President Donald Trump’s ...