Meta fast-tracks fiber technician training to solve a major data center bottleneck

A new four-week training program from Meta aims to address the shortage of fiber technicians as AI companies sprint to build ...
90.5 WESA

Pa. data centers: How lawmakers are responding, from electricity and water use to tax breaks

Dozens of data centers are planned for the Pennsylvania. Some lawmakers want to put up guardrails, while others want to speed their development.

Are data centers coming to your area?

This handy (and free!) tracker website is one of the most comprehensive attempts we’ve seen to keeps tabs on where new data ...
KUNC

Data centers’ water use is hard to track, raising concerns in the drought-prone West, study finds

As data centers rapidly expand across the Mountain West, researchers say a key question is getting harder to answer: how much ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

As AI data centers scale, investigating their impact becomes its own beat

Data centers have long underpinned the internet as we know it, but the generative AI boom has ushered in a new era of rapid, largely unchecked development. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta alone ...
Baton Rouge Business Report

PSC agrees to fast-track Entergy’s $20B plan to power Meta’s data center

The Louisiana Public Service Commission on Wednesday voted to fast-track Entergy’s proposal to power Meta’s data center in ...
The Scranton Times-Tribune

Our Opinion: Pass legislation to enforce data center ‘Fast Track’ deals

When it comes to addressing proposed data centers and the environmental and economic concerns they could pose to Pennsylvanians once constructed, Gov. Josh Shapiro has the right idea. If they promise ...