A Physics teacher was arrested for clapping multiple times during a public hearing to rezone land for a proposed gigawatt-scale data center near Emporia, Kansas. The man refused to cooperate when the police asked him to leave and was subsequently dragged out of the venue by four officers.
The largest grid operator in the U.S. says it will cut power to large data centers to prevent blackouts starting next year.
OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease SB Energy’s 10 GW data center campus in Piketon, Ohio, with Nvidia in discussions to guarantee roughly $250 billion of the financing behind it.
Residents of Dowagiac, Michigan, filed a case against a data center for generating noise pollution 24/7 for over two years. They said that the site has violated city noise ordinances but hasn’t made any improvements.
A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here’s how to fix the problem.
SpaceX, Blue Origin, and others want enormous orbital data center constellations, prompting warnings over atmospheric pollution, debris, and an astronomy problem satellites are already making worse.
Oregon set to start charging service providers for undersea cables using its sea floor. It will funnel the millions accrued toward state schools.
OpenAI will spend the equivalent of Sweden’s GDP on infrastructure through 2030.
BNEF’s December outlook put 2035 demand at 106 GW, and that figure was itself 36% above the projection the firm published in April 2025.
New data centers built through 2033 could consume as much electricity as India uses today.