The Minooka data center would take up to 340 acres, or slightly more than Chicago’s Grant Park. It would need a 700-megawatt supply of electricity, enough for half of Chicago’s households.

Opinions expressed are those of the author. Operators are rethinking every aspect of their data centers to ensure they maintain optimal performance levels, including developing new cooling systems ...

To address these increasing concerns, ISO 27001 provides a comprehensive framework for managing information security within businesses and organizations, and it is especially crucial for data centers.

Data centers contributed 4.7 million jobs to the US economy from 2017 to 2023, a PwC study says. Most of those jobs were attributed to "the multiplier effect," a standard and controversial model.

After all, energy-guzzling data centers are springing up like mushrooms all over the world, devouring precious land, straining our power grids, consuming water, and emitting noise. Building ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The Columbus area is among the top data center markets in the United States, according to a recent report. Data centers are physical facilities that store computing equip ...

AI, other key factors are feeding a continued expansion and hunger for data center development, in spite of certain challenges. The data center industry experienced record growth in 2024 ...

Data centers are the dedicated areas few ever see that enable the technology we see, touch and listen to. They can be huge and loud, but they employ relatively few people. In this special report ...

There’s a power crunch looming as AI and cloud providers ramp up data center construction. But a new report suggests that a solution lies beneath their foundations. Advanced geothermal power ...

A bubble is forming amid the scramble to build data centers to power the AI boom, Alibaba's chairman said. "I start to get worried when people are building data centers on spec," he said.

Microsoft Corp. has walked away from new data center projects in the US and Europe that would have amounted to a capacity of about 2 gigawatts of electricity, according to TD Cowen analysts ...

A couple of years ago, the cities of Cleburne and Alvarado used less energy in a year than a single data center proposed for the area is likely to consume. It’s in Sen. Phil King’s North ...