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Google defends evaporative cooling as Microsoft, OpenAI retreat from it
Seven in ten Americans now oppose new data centers, and water is the top concern. The industry is splitting on how to answer.
UN researchers say AI will double data center power and water use by 2030
A new UN analysis projects AI workloads will push global data center electricity and water consumption to twice today's levels within five years.
Google pledges to replenish more water than its data centers use by 2030
Five new water commitments and $17M in stewardship funding arrive as 70% of Americans say they oppose local data center construction.
Megaport raises $594M after landing four AI infrastructure contracts
The Australian network-as-a-service provider taps equity markets to fund a pivot toward AI workloads after winning four customer deals.
Erin Brockovich launches data center map after 4,000 community complaints
The environmental activist says transparency — not water or noise — is the top concern in submissions about US data center buildouts.
Utah approves 40,000-acre Stratos data center despite 4,000 public objections
Kevin O'Leary's 9GW AI campus could raise Utah carbon emissions 55% and nighttime temps by 12°F.
NextEra-Dominion merger creates utility giant to chase 130GW data center pipeline
The $67B deal positions the combined company to more than double generation capacity to 225GW by 2032.
NextEra to buy Dominion in $66.8B deal as AI power demand surges
The combination would create one of the largest US utilities at a moment when data center load is reshaping power markets.
Lake Tahoe loses its power supplier to Nevada's AI data center boom
Liberty Utilities' contract with NV Energy expires May 2027, and data center load requests dwarf the resort region's needs by 40x.
Pennsylvania residents organize against 60 proposed data centers at virtual town hall
A two-hour online forum drew 225 attendees and aimed criticism at Gov. Josh Shapiro as a Quinnipiac poll finds 68% oppose local AI data centers.
NV Energy to cut power to Lake Tahoe by May 2027 as Nevada data centers absorb capacity
Liberty Utilities must replace 75% of its supply for 49,000 California residents while Nevada plans for 5,900 megawatts of new data center demand.
University of Washington student ships interactive map of AI data center policy
Isabelle Reksopuro's tool uses Claude to refresh four times daily, charting buildouts from The Dalles to Texas.
Foxconn Q1 profit jumps 19% on AI server demand, beating forecasts
The world's largest contract electronics maker is riding the AI buildout, with Q1 earnings outpacing analyst estimates.
xAI runs 46 gas turbines at Mississippi data center under 'mobile' loophole
Mississippi treats the trailer-mounted turbines as mobile, exempting them from air-pollution rules for one year; the NAACP is seeking an injunction.
Data centers push into rural America with jobs math that doesn't add up
Maine's governor vetoed an 18-month data center moratorium citing 150 jobs at a Jay facility; a Texas study found net job creation closer to zero.
SPAN pitches home-attached AI data center nodes in 100-home 2026 trial
The San Francisco startup wants 80,000 XFRA nodes in US homes by 2027, each packing 16 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, in exchange for subsidized power.
QTS data center used 30M gallons of unbilled water in drought-hit Georgia county
Fayette County found two unmonitored industrial hookups at the QTS site; the company paid $150,000 in back charges and faced no fines.
Cowboy Space raises $275M to build its own rockets for orbital AI data centers
Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt's startup is going vertical — rockets and satellites — to beat a launch-capacity bottleneck by 2028.
Morgan Stanley Lifts 2026 Hyperscaler Capex Forecast to $805 Billion
The bank's analyst sees AI infrastructure spending potentially reaching $1.1 trillion by 2027, rivaling all non-tech S&P 500 capex combined.
Reuters warns investors are running out of time to brace for an oil shock
A Reuters column argues markets are underpricing the odds of a genuine crude disruption — a risk that lands directly on AI data center economics.
SoftBank lines up Roze AI, a robot-built data center venture, for a $100B IPO
The Japanese conglomerate wants to take Roze AI public as soon as the second half of 2026, with autonomous robots assembling US server farms.
Rural America turns on the AI data center boom as 67% of new builds head for farm country
Pew finds 67% of planned data centers are now in rural areas, flipping a decade of urban concentration and igniting fights from Illinois to West Virginia.
Meta signs deal with Overview Energy for solar power beamed from space
The capacity reservation covers up to 1 gigawatt from a planned 1,000-satellite constellation, with first launches targeted for 2030.
Maine Governor Janet Mills vetoes statewide data center moratorium bill
L.D. 307 would have paused new data center permits until November 1, 2027 and stood up a 13-person study council.
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