Amazon's Project Houdini modularizes main server rooms, expediting AWS data center buildouts. Project Houdini expects to save weeks of construction time and tens of thousands of labor hours.

With more than 200 data centers and counting, rural Ohioans are calling for a statewide ban on new developments as big-tech warns that would signal Ohio is "closed for business." With more than 200 ...

Oracle announced a suite of agentic AI capabilities integrated directly into Oracle AI Database, enabling AI agents to securely access enterprise data where it already exists, rather than requiring ...

The tech industry needs massive amounts of electricity. The most overlooked power plant in the United States isn’t a gas turbine or a solar farm: It’s your house. Tech companies are locked into a race ...

A trio of Senate Democrats have opened an investigation into eight technology companies over 12 planned data center projects that will be powered by new natural gas plants. The investigation — which ...

President Trump has proposed that tech companies provide their own electricity for new data centers. The massive electricity and water needs of AI data centers are straining the nation's aging power ...

When Meta officials came to Louisiana in 2024 to negotiate a potential data center project, they told state officials that they would need significant tax breaks in order to close the deal. “It was ...

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim ...

Somerville-based Form Energy says it’s found the biggest customer yet for its iron-based battery technology. Form will build a massive battery system in partnership with electric utility Xcel Energy, ...

President Donald Trump wants data centers to supply their own electricity with private power plants. A new Cleanview report found 46 data centers in the US plan to build on-site power plants. The vast ...

President Donald Trump will meet with executives from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle and OpenAI at the White House next week. They will sign a pledge to supply their own power for their ...

Affordability was a theme of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Among other things, that meant talking about electricity prices. Trump promised on the campaign trail ...