KSHB 41 reporter Charlie Keegan covers politics in Kansas, Missouri and at the local level. Share your story idea with Charlie. The boom of data center construction across Kansas City is set to ...

Note to readers • This story is made possible through a partnership between The Salt Lake Tribune and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. In rural Millard County, Kalen Taylor is ...

Tech firms are floating the idea of building data centers in space and tapping into the sun's energy to meet out-of-this-world power demands in a fierce artificial intelligence race. Elon Musk's ...

WASHINGTON — SpaceX has acquired xAI, an artificial intelligence company also run by Elon Musk, as part of his effort to develop orbital data centers. In a statement Feb. 2, SpaceX said it acquired ...

About 20% of all the data centers in the U.S. are located in eight states around the Great Lakes. As of 2024, the region had 525 data centers — with another 224 planned by 2030, according to data ...

The two demo satellites that Google and Planet are developing for Project Suncatcher are versions of Planet’s new Owl line of imaging satellites. Credit: Planet WASHINGTON — Planet, a company best ...

These companies will play a crucial role in supporting the AI era. The AI revolution is driving nearly insatiable demand for hardware like high-performance GPUs, CPUs, networking equipment, and ...

As usage of artificial intelligence increases, the construction of several large-scale data centers in Michigan is being debated by local municipalities and residents who live nearby those sites. At ...

As the AI surge progresses, the most significant hurdle is unlikely to be the availability of chips or components. Instead, it will be electricity, cooling, and physical space. On our planet, data ...

Three Democrats are seeking information from tech firms about the growing energy use of data centers and the utility bills of individuals and other businesses. By Ivan Penn and Karen Weise Three ...