National and state political leaders are rushing to regulate and incentivize the rapidly growing data center industry.

To grow its economy, China is betting big on artificial intelligence, cloud computing and other digital technology—and a big part of that bet involves rapidly building data centers to boost computing power.

Amazon.com Inc.’s carbon emissions rose for the first time in three years in 2024, driven by data center construction and fuel consumption by its delivery providers. The worlds

CoreWeave is investing $6 billion in AI data centers in Lancaster County, creating over 600 jobs and marking the largest business investment in the region’s history.

The Shapiro administration is slashing red tape and has given developers the green light so Pennsylvania will move at the “speed of business” and become a global competitor in AI. Not everyone is happy about it.

(Reuters) -CoreWeave plans to spend up to $6 billion on building a new artificial intelligence data center in Pennsylvania, as part of a push by U.S. President Donald Trump to maintain the country’s edge in the booming technology sector, the company said on Tuesday.

CoreWeave is investing $6 billion in AI data centers in Lancaster County, creating over 600 jobs and marking the largest business investment in the region’s history.

Data center operators in China, which use Nvidia’s H20 chips to crunch data for various AI services, have been struggling to find a local alternative that is as good as the U.S. company’s chips.

Elon Musk's xAI is in discussions to lease data center capacity in Saudi Arabia, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The startup is in discussion with two potential partners: Humain,