The Great Salt Lake is drying up. What happens when a data center as large as Washington, D.C., sits next to it?

A review in Quantitative Biology demonstrates that scientists can now reliably build and combine very large pieces of DNA, making it much easier to redesign microbes such as yeast and bacteria to act ...

As global temperatures rise, data centers for artificial intelligence are creating “heat islands” that could have significant impacts on communities and their surrounding environments in the years to ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A large pothole opened up on a road in Jarrell early Tuesday morning, slowing down traffic for some commuters. Williamson County Emergency Services District 5 and the Jarrell ...

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Maine is now the first state to pass a moratorium on the development of ...

Amazon's AI boom is creating a new kind of mess: a growing bloat of internal tools and duplicated data. Some teams are rapidly building their own AI-powered applications to automate workflows and ...

The Maine Legislature approved an 18-month moratorium, but Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat running for Senate, has yet to say whether she will sign it. By Jenna Russell Lawmakers in Maine this week ...

Louisiana Economic Development (LED) announced Feb. 23 that Amazon selected the state for $12 billion data center campuses in Caddo and Bossier Parish. LED announced Dec. 17, 2025, that West Feliciana ...

The Maine legislature passed the first state ban in the nation on the development of large data centers on Tuesday. The temporary measure, which lasts for 1.5 years, restricts the construction of new ...

Maine lawmakers on Tuesday passed a ban on large data-center construction, making it the first state to enact such a measure as communities around the U.S. deal with fallout from the ...

Legislators in Maine on Tuesday passed the nation’s first statewide ban on large data centers, part of a growing backlash to the energy-intensive facilities that fuel the rise of artificial ...

Maine lawmaker Melanie Sachs, a Democrat, thought her state was one of the few places in the nation where data centers weren’t interested in setting up shop. The northeastern-most state in the US — ...