A million-square-foot data center became a lighting rod in this rural county. Local leaders filed lawsuits, proposed laws and organized a ballot measure to challenge it.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As data centers continue to pop-up around Texas and the Dallas-Fort Worth region, some experts weighed in on their water and ...

Dallas-Fort Worth is a hotspot of the country's data center boom. In May, a report from real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield named Dallas the No. 1 primary data center market in the world, stating ...

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Zoo officials say protecting a vulnerable cat species may depend on stopping a data center next door.

As political pushback builds, Visa and Mastercard say they're folding the energy impacts of data centers into existing ...

Data center projects continue to generate controversy around the country. In part, that’s because a variety of different groups have competing interests – some in favor of them, some opposed and ...

A sign near a proposed location of a data center in Peculiar, Missouri, in 2024. (Arin Yoon/For The Washington Post) ...

"Jumping on board a little late, don't you think?" one critic questioned.

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