Tag: Data center
Your AI tools run on fracked gas and bulldozed Texas land | TechCrunch
The AI era is giving fracking a second act, a surprising twist for an industry that, even during its early 2010s boom years, was...
Meta is sinking $10 billion into Louisiana to build its wildest AI aspirations, setting the template for the grid buildout
On a quiet patch of former farmland in northeastern Louisiana, a fleet of excavators has leveled more than 2,000 acres of reddish clay earth....
Data centers are eating the economy — and we’re not even using them
As tech giants announce hundreds of billions in new data center investments, we’re witnessing a fundamental misunderstanding of our compute shortage problem. The industry’s...
States are taking action as electric bills rise amid data-center boom. ‘There’s a massive outcry’
Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungrydata centers.
It’s not...
Kinder Morgan kicks off oil and gas earnings season with a bullish outlook, in part thanks to thirsty data centers
While most of the nation’s power focus is on servicing the rise of data centers and AI, the biggest driver of natural gas demand...
Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will accelerate an American energy crisis—and it could cost the U.S. the AI race
America is facing an energy imperative: Grow power from all sources or face potential failure.
That’s failure in the race against China for AI supremacy;...
