Like people in many communities around the state, White County residents over the past few months have packed public meetings in opposition to data centers.

The center is set to join the three other data center projects in the state. Google is currently developing a $4 billion, 1,100 acre data center campus in West Memphis. An as-yet-unnamed Fortune 100 company is developing 300,000 square feet data centers in Little Rock and Conway, each valued at $1 billion.

After an company withdrew its data center plans amid environmental concerns, environmental groups cheered, while the news was met with a sense of disappointment by developers.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel criticized a state panel's approach to a massive data center project on Tuesday.

The project is at a scale of industrial development and investment unmatched in McLennan County’s history: acres of computer hardware, substations and a 1.2-gigawatt gas-fired plant capable of powering about 300,

Big tech projects for artificial intelligence and cloud computing are sparking local pushback, environmental worries and anxiety over power bills. We've got answers.

The team’s project received partial funding through a U.S. Department of Energy’s ARPA-E COOLERCHIPS grant led by Professor Dereje Agonafer—in collaboration with other universities—to advance the “Holistic Co-Design of Novel Hybrid Cooling Technology for the Data Center of the Future.”