‘Fighting Goliath': How a rural North Texas community took on Big Data

A Star-Telegram short documentary film on the battle against data centers in North Texas.

How to take control of the AI data center boom and built it into your own home in the future

As public support for large-scale data center buildouts declines across the U.S., a new type designed to operate inside ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

As AI data centers scale, investigating their impact becomes its own beat

Data centers have long underpinned the internet as we know it, but the generative AI boom has ushered in a new era of rapid, largely unchecked development. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta alone ...
Forbes

AI’s Data Center Boom Is Testing Power Grids And Local Communities

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica Sanders covers climate justice and sustainability from the DMV. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...
Ars Technica

Orbital data centers, part 1: There’s no way this is economically viable, right?

Editor's note: This is the first of three feature articles Ars is publishing to explore the financial, technical, and competitive dimensions of orbital data centers. Although the idea of putting data ...