But data centers, of course, aren’t actually new. In the earliest days of computing there were giant power-sucking mainframes ...

GENERATIONS TO COME. ALSO NEW TONIGHT. PEOPLE IN WEST MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP CAME OUT TO LEARN MORE AND ALSO SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS ON A PROPOSED AI DATA CENTER. IT WOULD REPLACE THE BRIARWOOD GOLF COURSE.

Drive in almost any direction from almost any American city, and soon enough you’ll arrive at a data center—a giant white box rising from graded earth, flanked by generators and fenced like a prison ...

Google recently courted the township of Franklin, Ind., so that it could construct a giant campus to house the computer hardware that powers its internet business. But the company needed to rezone ...

ASHBURN, VA - MAY 9: People walk through the hallways at Equinix Data Center in Ashburn, Virginia, on May 9, 2024. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The Washington Post via Getty Images) The global AI craze ...

The amount of capital pouring into AI data center projects is staggering. Last week, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon reported their 2025 capital expenditures would total roughly $370 billion, ...