It’s clear that communities now have an effective playbook to block data center construction. This week, researchers flagged the first quarter of 2026 as producing the “most blocked and delayed data ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock An anti-data center post by the Tucson branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation tapped in to growing ...

WASHINGTON — Celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary appeared to dig in his heels in recent days after facing backlash on all sides over a planned 40,000-acre AI data center campus in Utah — that’s roughly ...

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Driven by the artificial intelligence boom, developers are planning to invest over $30 billion in large-scale data centers across Kentucky. These energy-intensive projects have raised environmental ...

As widespread public skepticism surrounds a growing number of data center projects in New Mexico to support artificial intelligence, Oracle is launching a new ad campaign touting the economic, ...

NEW FLORENCE, Mo. — In the quiet town of New Florence, Missouri, residents say they can already hear the future moving in. “Listen, you can hear the bulldozers running down there right now,” longtime ...

The Nature Conservancy and Ducks Unlimited are working to restore a stream system near Eagle Spring Lake in the Town of Eagle, transforming what was once a chain of man-made ponds back into a stream ...

As the weather gets warmer, you might find yourself with a little extra time and motivation to spruce things up around the house. A common way of doing that (despite the groans of children everywhere) ...

Building a plant to power the data center is intended to ensure the project won’t strain the local grid and hike electricity costs for nearby residents, as has happened in other areas with AI data ...

There’s growing community resistance against a hyperscale data center project in the village of Grayslake — what could be the largest single development in Lake County’s history — but with work ...