Many consumers – and state policymakers and even utility companies – are worried about the possibility of large numbers of ...

Protestors gathered at a September 10, 2025 Saline Township Board of Trustees meeting to speak in opposition to a data center in the community. Michigan's Zoning Enabling Act doesn't allow local ...

Communities are protesting new data centers due to environmental impacts and rising utility costs. Data centers require significant amounts of electricity and water, with consumption expected to grow.

Plans for a data center have some residents concerned about environmental impacts and transparency in the process.

Data centers are a contentious issue around the country, and Indiana is no exception.

Editor's note: This is the first of three feature articles Ars is publishing to explore the financial, technical, and competitive dimensions of orbital data centers. Although the idea of putting data ...

As data center projects have popped up across the St. Louis region, driven by the growth of industrial-scale computing for artificial intelligence, one of the primary concerns raised by residents is ...