They power the cloud, stream your shows and store files and documents. Here’s what’s really inside those giant buildings.

Data centers are popping up across the country—with outsize impacts on the communities next door and their resources.

Lindsey Martin’s electricity bill reached a record-high $314 in July, she said in a TikTok. In the video’s more than 4,000 comments, many users reported similar power-bill spikes.

The structures are built between baseball fields, schools, homes and historic cemeteries. A data center under construction ...

And that computing power has a big environmental footprint. A typical AI data center uses as much electricity as 100,000 ...

AI data centers are popping up in cities, towns, even cattle ranches. They require lots of power — creating new challenges ...

The demand for data centers is growing faster than our ability to mitigate their skyrocketing economic and environmental ...

For the first time in Florida, utility regulators are mulling how to handle data centers — the energy-guzzling facilities ...

In a recent interview, Bryan officials clarified that no data center plans have been submitted for annexed land near the ...