Amazon Web Services executive says data center is long-term commitment that company wants to be part of community.

In a rural pocket of northeastern Louisiana, Meta is building a $30 billion data center called Hyperion. The project highlights an opaque system of financing that's fueling fears of an AI bubble.

It’s the same kind of thing we saw with warehouses and we continue to see with warehouses,” one review said about the plan for a data center on the former Air Products HQ site.

For all the planning that goes into building a data center, a surprising number of the world's facilities go up in adverse climates. And by that we mean hot climates, which put added pressure on the elaborate cooling systems that keep those stacks of expensive hardware from overheating.

Middlesex Township Planning Commission has recommended approval of a subdivision plan - creation of lots - for what would be one of the largest data center campuses in the state. Township supervisors are expected to take it up next month.

The company building an AI data center in West Feliciana Parish said early Wednesday that Anthropic, whose Claude chatbot is a rival to Chat GPT, has signed a long-term deal to use the facility, marking the second mega tech company to set up an AI data center in Louisiana in the past year.

Billions of dollars are being poured into the industry by major tech companies to build more data centers as they race toward AI's promised potential.

Texas Pacific Land stock jumped more than 8% after it struck a deal with the data center startup Bolt to build computing facilities meant to power the AI boom on its land.

Hyperscale data centers are massive investments that take massive amounts of land and energy. Some communities have fought back.

A data center planned for the Pennhurst State School and Hospital site will move forward in a monthslong, multistep process, after East Vincent Township’s board of supervisors scrapped a draft ordinance seeking to impose restrictions on data-center construction.