A new report by Bluefield Research warns that within four years 72% of total water consumption by data centers will happen off-site as part of dedicated power generation.

But there is another reason to add to the list: water consumption. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), a typical 100-megawatt hyperscale data center consumes around 530,000 gallons of water per day, equivalent to the use of 6,500 homes.

Central Ohio's booming data center industry is creating an energy crisis, with demand potentially outstripping supply in the next decade.

High-than-usual electric bills in Virginia this winter have prompted discussion about the role data centers could play in driving up costs. Dominion Energy, the commonwealth's largest electric utility company,

What’s noticeably missing from the agenda of Gov. Tina Kotek’s Data Center Advisory Committee are tax breaks. Kotek convened her data center committee to come up with policy recommendations to take

Georgia senators rejected a proposal Tuesday that would have explicitly prevented power companies from passing on data centers’ costs to customers, instead advancing a bill with fewer consumer

The regulatory reform efforts, bills like the SPEED Act, ePermit Act and PERMIT Act, could help. The Securing Reliable Power for Advanced Technologies Act specifically targets AI infrastructure development. But Congress moves slowly, and the AI race moves fast.

Legislation advanced through committees Thursday would make data centers and other power-hungry projects pay for infrastructure upgrades.