From AI to cloud computing, data centers power today's digital world. Learn about their function and why companies are racing to build more of them.

The city of Fairfield is weighing a proposal to bring a colocation data center to the community, drawing questions from residents about environmental impacts and what the facility would mean for their ...

Data centers aren’t new, but they affect most everything we do. From the tools we use regularly, to the products and services we rely on, data centers are the infrastructure that makes those things ...

The high $50 Billion per GW lease rates for xAI/SpaceX Colossus and similar premium, immediately available AI clusters are for scarce of ready-to-use, large-scale coherent GPU capacity. Kevin Pathrath ...

Editor's note: This is the second 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 ...

The city of Belmont is not currently considering any data center proposals. A presentation to the city council outlined three types of data centers: hyperscaler, edge, and crypto. Belmont's current ...

The sun sets behind the Stargate data center on May 2, 2026, in Abilene. In the span of a couple years, hundreds of massive electricity- and water-hungry data centers have proposed construction in ...

The City Council held a meeting Monday night at which there was long and heated discussion about undoing the 4-month moratorium on data center projects before Planning & Zoning has had a chance to do ...