Artificial Intelligence
Bessemer, Alabama, Could Face Legal Action Over Environmental Impacts From a ‘Hyperscale’ Data Center
By Lee Hedgepeth
Water Utility Says It Can’t Meet Demand for Alabama Data Center Without ‘Significant Upgrades’
By Lee Hedgepeth
AI Can Help Limit the Spread of Misinformation During Natural Disaster, Study Finds
By Ryan Krugman
How a Data Center Company Uses Stranded Renewable Energy
By Arcelia Martin
An Alabama City Recommends Changing Its Laws to Accommodate One of the Country’s Largest Proposed Data Centers
By Lee Hedgepeth
The Darter Fish and the Data Center
By Lee Hedgepeth, Lanier Isom
As Data Centers Proliferate Across Illinois, Communities Grapple with How to Supply the Necessary Water
By Susan Cosier
Developers Propose More Than 100 New Gas Power Plants in Texas
By Dylan Baddour
Data Centers Are Building Their Own Gas Power Plants in Texas
By Dylan Baddour, Arcelia Martin
Meta Strikes 20-Year Nuclear Power Deal With Constellation Energy
By Arcelia Martin
Alabamians Want Answers About a Four-Million-Square-Foot Data Center Coming to Their Backyards
By Lee Hedgepeth, Lanier Isom
Flexibility Will Go a Long Way Toward Managing the Grid of the Near Future, Researchers Say
By Dan Gearino
DeepSeek’s Emergence Shows the Power Sector’s AI Dreams May Not Proceed as Expected
By Dan Gearino
As Illinois’ Governor Recruits Data Centers, Chicagoans’ Electricity Bills Are Getting More Expensive
By Brett Chase, Dan Gearino
A Data Center Fight Touches on a Big Question: Who Assumes the Financial Risk for the AI Boom?
By Dan Gearino
AI Is Everywhere Now—and It’s Sucking Up a Lot of Water
Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth
