Nearly a fifth of the contiguous United States sat under extreme drought conditions as of the week ending June 30, 2026, ...
The Aspen Acres fire, burning 10 miles northwest of Rye, Colorado, has destroyed 180 buildings and earned designation as the ...
A sign near a proposed location of a data center in Peculiar, Missouri, in 2024. (Arin Yoon/For The Washington Post) ...
We can design, build, and operate data centers in ways that align with our climate goals and societal values, writes Sasha ...
Extreme heat like the weather sweeping the eastern U.S. drives up energy demands for data centers, adding to their strain on ...
On May 15, 2026, DR Congo declared its 17th Ebola virus disease outbreak, centred in Ituri Province. By May 17, WHO ...
The global AI race is driving a surge of data centers in the United States, where droves of lawmakers and municipalities are ...
Many businesses have some plan for when cloud access goes out, but there is a difference between a simple backup plan and ...
In lieu of statewide regulations, a growing number of Illinois cities and counties are telling data centers to come back ...
AI data center growth is clashing with U.S. groundwater, as proposed sites over the Ogallala Aquifer raise water security ...
The POWER Act would regulate energy and water use for hyperscale data centers and mandate public transparency measures.
Inver Grove Height’s new moratorium could open the city up to a similar lawsuit, with a legal expert warning that a developer ...