The AI and data center boom is here, but communities nationwide are pushing back. Here is a closer look at the industry and issues around it.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marie Sapirie writes about federal tax issues and litigation. As the “age of artificial intelligence” continues, the demand for ...

Two new data centers with more than 4 million square feet of combined space may be coming to Monticello, a city that’s taking a closer look at the potential impacts of such projects. Stephanie ...

As council members from Archbald and Jessup grapple with the process of potentially bringing data centers to their municipalities, Buddy Rizer, executive director of economic development for Loudoun ...

A conceptual aerial rendering of plans for a Metrobloks data center in Martindale-Brightwood’s former Sherman Drive In site. (provided by the City of Indianapolis) Like people in many communities ...

At least 25 data center projects around the country were canceled last year due to opposition from the local communities, according to research from intelligence platform Heatmap Pro. The canceled ...

A developer tied to data center projects in Archbald and Blakely now proposes to build four data centers in Dickson City across hundreds of mountainside acres above Business Route 6. Dickson City ...

After months of discussion — and some resident opposition — the Yorkville City Council has given a first green light to a roughly 1,000-acre data center campus proposed in the area. The proposed data ...

Michigan may remember 2025 as the year of the data center. Developers have eyed at least 16 sites in 10 counties across the Lower Peninsula for the power-hungry server warehouses supporting artificial ...