While Oklahoma is embracing data centers, local and state leaders throughout the United States are pausing or banning the industry's growth.

About 100 people attended a community meeting focused on a proposed data center in Wake County. The facility would be built on a nearly 200-acre site on Shearon Harris Road. The proposed development has garnered vocal pushback from New Hill residents.

Documents released through a Data Practices Act request have revealed a few discrepancies between what Hermantown officials have said in private versus in public about a data center proposal.

BISMARCK — The Hoover dam, 3.3 million horsepower or nearly 5 million solar panels — that's the amount of power generation a handful of hyperscale data centers in North Dakota will be guzzling within the next decade, and both industry and local leaders ...

A Maryland consumer watchdog has accused regional utilities of inflating the amount of electricity new data centers will need in a ‘land rush’ to lock up power grid access, a move that could lead to consumers bearing costs of an overbuilt system.

Wednesday's public meeting was the last of several hosted by the city as it researches how the centers should be permitted.

With the data center permit request scratched from the Nov. 18 planning and zoning commission agenda, the soonest it would likely be up for a vote is Dec. 16, when that body next meets. A decision at that time could set up a further review by the Hermantown City Council in January at its first meeting of 2026.

China has finished construction of what’s being billed as the world’s first wind-powered underwater data center (UDC), located off the coast of the Lin-gang Special Area of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone. The project, which cost around ¥1.6 ...