Energy is the largest operational expense for terrestrial data centers, often accounting for 40% to 60% of annual costs. Hyperscale facilities can spend $5 to 10 million per year on electricity alone.

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.

From L.A. to Saudi Arabia to Dallas, BD+C is highlighting three cutting-edge data centers that redefine security, efficiency, ...

Energy-starved AI workloads are driving companies to space, but analysts say the technology remains years from general ...

As data center developers invest billions in Pennsylvania, the state is weighing who should pay the literal price of their arrival. The Public Utility Commission is set to develop a proposed model ...

For decades, data centers were designed with permanence in mind: fixed plans, rigid shapes and predictable life cycles. Physical constraints of legacy architectures made them inherently static. But in ...

Power lines extend north from Wildlands Conservancy's South Mountain Preserve in Emmaus, with the PPL Building in Center City Allentown visible in the background, on Aug. 16, 2025. The Pennsylvania ...

China has finished construction of what’s being billed as the world’s first wind-powered underwater data center (UDC), located off the coast of the Lin-gang Special Area of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free ...