Tucson’s “Project Blue” promised a massive data center complex — but secrecy killed it. Last week, the city council unanimously rejected the plan after public outcry over nondisclosure agreements that kept residents, and even some officials, in the dark about who was[...]
Bitcoin miners in Alaska are chasing a new kind of gold rush — powered by methane and fed by megawatts. A proposed data center on the North Slope promises to convert stranded gas into electricity to fuel crypto mining, with ambitions to[...]
Just a few years ago, Coal Creek Station was on the chopping block—another casualty in the nationwide shift away from coal. Now, North Dakota’s largest coal plant is at the center of an ambitious plan to power a sprawling new industrial park.[...]
A national debate over artificial intelligence is colliding with a very local concern: where to put the servers. Buried in President Trump’s sweeping “Big Beautiful Bill” is a 10-year ban on state-level AI regulation—now drawing backlash from lawmakers who say it could[...]
Texas is on the front line of the AI energy boom—and it’s not wind or solar leading the charge. Across the state, developers are bypassing the strained public grid to build private, gas-fired power plants that will feed massive new data centers.[...]
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In Ellendale, North Dakota — a town of just 1,100 people — something big is happening. A $7 billion lease deal with an artificial intelligence firm has transformed the quiet prairie into a power-hungry hub of high-performance computing. Applied Digital’s sprawling campus[...]
Just outside Ellendale, North Dakota, a massive data center project is reshaping the prairie. Applied Digital is building a 2.2 million-square-foot campus to power AI data storage and cryptocurrency mining, drawn by the area’s abundant energy. While some residents worry about potential[...]
As data centers grow to meet soaring demand from AI, cloud computing, and streaming, cooling those powerful servers has become a challenge. Rochester-based LiquidCool Solutions offers an innovative answer: submerging electronics in a special non-conductive fluid that cuts energy use by up[...]
In Finland, a quiet revolution is turning data centers from energy guzzlers into community heaters. Ari Kurvi, a pioneer of this technology, helped transform waste heat from servers into warmth for thousands of homes. Now Microsoft is building the world’s largest heat-recovering[...]
North Dakota is taking a significant step forward in leveraging the power of data with the launch of the official North Dakota “State Data Hub”. This initiative, spearheaded by North Dakota Information Technology (NDIT), aims to enhance the use and impact of[...]
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Lawmakers in North Dakota are wrestling with how much control local governments should have over energy projects—and the debate is heating up. A proposal to withhold infrastructure funds from communities that challenge state-approved projects faced resistance in the Senate Energy Committee, with[...]