The expansion of data centers to power the AI boom has more people wondering: what exactly is in a data center?

Drive in almost any direction from almost any American city, and soon enough you’ll arrive at a data center—a giant white box rising from graded earth, flanked by generators and fenced like a prison ...

IS BEING POWERED. THE FORMER RR DONNELLEY PRINTING SITE IN LANCASTER IS IN THE MIDST OF TRANSFORMATION, SET TO BECOME A CUTTING EDGE AI DATA CENTER. BUT WHAT DOES THAT REALLY MEAN? TO FIND OUT, WE ...

MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. — The explosive growth of data centers is on the minds of residents and lawmakers in the St. Louis region, where two massive data center proposals were recently met with protests ...

Elon Musk’s company Tesla rolled out its own battery marketed for industrial facilities like data centers called the Megapack ...

MACON, Ga. — When you store photos, documents, music, movies and other online files in the “cloud,” where exactly does it go? The “cloud” can sometimes feel like an imaginary idea– a place where our ...

Each time someone sends an email, streams a show or scrolls social media, they’re interacting with a data center. And now, Michigan is becoming a battleground for them— the warehouse-style facilities ...

AI data centers may pay $6B in tariffs in 2025, adding costs to servers and infrastructure. How tariffs shape U.S. AI competitiveness is becoming a key industry question.

One small town in Michigan is debating whether to allow data centers. It's a topic getting pushback all over the country. The Planet Money team explores the hot button issue. Data centers are the new ...