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Artificial Intelligence

CoreWeave was awarded a $250 million tax break for its 392,600-square-foot data center under construction in Kenilworth, N.J. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Amid Affordability Crisis, New Jersey Hands $250 Million Tax Break to Data Center

By Rambo Talabong

Jen Walling, chief executive officer of the Illinois Environmental Council, spoke in support of the POWER Act at a press conference in Chicago on Feb. 11. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

Could a New Illinois Bill Be a Blueprint for Curbing Data Centers’ Climate Impacts?

By Keerti Gopal

An aerial view of data centers in Ashburn, Va. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Virginia House Passes Data Center Tax Exemption, With Conditions

By Charles Paullin

An aerial view of the Sabey Data Center in Round Rock, Texas. Credit: Aaron E. Martinez/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images

Texas to Study ‘Batch Zero’ of Data Centers by Late Summer

By Arcelia Martin

An aerial view of a 33-megawatt data center in Vernon, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

‘The Sky Isn’t Falling’: Providing Perspective on the Data Center Boom

By Dan Gearino

A mockup provided by a DigiPowerX representative shows the modular facilities that will be part of the company's phase one expansion. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

An Alabama Mayor Signed an NDA With a Data Center Developer. Read It Here.

By Lee Hedgepeth

Cars pass a data center under construction in Ashburn, Va., on Nov, 12, 2025. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Clean Energy Advocates Criticize ‘Glaring’ Omission in White House Plan to Fuel Data Centers in PJM Region

By Marianne Lavelle, Kiley Bense

The developer of Project Marvel, a proposed massive hyperscale data center, has requested the rezoning of additional agricultural land in southwest Bessemer, Ala. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Bessemer Data Center Developer to Request Rezoning for Additional 900 Acres

By Lee Hedgepeth

Crusoe plans to build a massive data center campus, like this one in Abilene, Texas, in southeast Wyoming. Credit: Courtesy of Crusoe

Wyoming County Approves Construction of What Could Become the Largest Data Center in US

By Leigh Reagan Smith

Line workers attend to distribution poles in Richmond, Va. Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News

Virginia Regulators Approve New Dominion Rates, Assign More Costs to Data Centers

By Charles Paullin

Demonstrators attend a Stand Up for Science rally to highlight the critical role of science in public health, environmental stewardship and education at the Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on March 7. Credit: Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff

A battery storage facility in Iola, Texas. Credit: Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

How Batteries Could Play a Role in Data Center Rollouts

By Arcelia Martin

The construction site of a 75 megawatt data center is seen in Denver on May 13. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Environmental Groups Demand a Nationwide Freeze on Data Center Construction

By Lauren Dalban

A view of the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Palo, Iowa. Credit: NextEra Energy

Google Data Centers Will Bring Nuclear Power Back To Tornado Country

By Anika Jane Beamer

Cabinets hold racks and active servers at the Digital Realty Innovation Lab data center on Nov. 12 in Ashburn, Va. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images

Members of America’s Largest Power Grid Can’t Agree on How to Power Data Centers

By Rambo Talabong

Transmission lines stand above the entrance to the Loring Commerce Centre at the site of the former Loring Air Force Base. Credit: Derek Davis/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

Maine’s First Major Data Center Project Touts Green Innovation

By Ryan Krugman

Bessemer City Council member Cleo King explains his vote against rezoning for Project Marvel in a November meeting. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

An Alabama City Council Approves Rezoning for a Massive Data Center, Dividing a Community

By Lee Hedgepeth

The construction site of an Amazon data center in Salem Township, Pa., on Oct. 10. Credit: Jason Ardan/Citizens' Voice via Getty Images

A New Unifying Issue: Just About Everyone Hates Data Centers

By Dan Gearino

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