Nvidia engineer Sean James makes the case that AI data centers "need to fade into the background" so they're visibly "unremarkable."

Wisconsin Democratic candidate for governor Francesca Hong called for a moratorium on data centers. So did Ohio Republican governor hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy, as data centers begin to dominate campaigns.

As lawmakers carved out territory for data centers and nuclear but not wolves or renewables, Gov. Katie Hobbs' veto pen proved powerful in 2026.

Data center operators are increasingly picking colder-weather areas to build, so the icy continent sounds good on paper. It's more complicated than that.

Energy and construction materials company MDU Resources (NYSE:MDU) missed Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q2 CY2026, but sales rose 6.8% year on year to $375.2 million. Its GAAP profit of $0.10 per share was 29.

WASHINGTON — A new federal proposal to enact protections for communities opposed to the proliferation of data centers has drawn inspiration from both the Philadelphia suburbs and Western Pennsylvania fracking country.

Roughly 30 people on Saturday gathered outside of the Indianapolis City-County Building in support of a proposal that would pause the development of new data centers in Marion County at least through the end of next year.

State regulators in Virginia are rethinking who should absorb the cost of the major transmission buildout needed as data centers push electricity demand higher. As Virginia Mercury reported, a new order could place a larger share of those expenses on the biggest power users, reducing how much is spread across households and small businesses.