Tax incentives from many of the eight Great Lakes states have lured industries that need water. But the region is ill-prepared for the coming needs.

From enabling daily digital activities to powering economic growth, data centers are the misunderstood backbone of modern society.

In 2024, one data center in Iowa consumed 1 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the state’s residences with water for five days.

Vantage Data Centers said on Tuesday it would spend more than $25 billion to build a 1,200-acre data center campus in Shackelford County, Texas, as surging demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure fuels mega-scale developments.

Thailand’s data center capacity is expected to triple in the next three years as investments of about $6.5 billion pour into the sector to meet surging demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

Land speculators are buying up property, paying 20 or 30 times more than they would have a year ago. New business permits have tripled. Three new hotels and a Dollar General are in the works. And there's growing pains,

Using less electricity as a response to high demand had been a nonstarter for big tech companies. That might be changing.

With data centers buying up electricity, residential customers are digging deep to make payments. “The challenge,” said a source, “is when the demand for the product increases really fast, the

If the Public Service Commission approves the plan, Entergy will have the greenlight to build three new gas plants to power the tech giant’s $10 billion facility.

Among Grant County’s corn, hay and potato fields, 29 data centers have created an unlikely economic boom, helping drive annual property taxes up 1,277% to $54 million over nearly two decades. The town of Quincy,