The AI industry is turning to an old energy favorite to bring its data centers online fast

Tech Insider : Economy, Business, Climate Crisis
A man stands in front of a natural gas plant that's flaring in Texas
A natural gas plant in Garden City, Texas.

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I helped block a data center in my town and learned how much power locals have

Tech Insider : Business
Jesse Brooks stands in front of fence and wooded area.
Jesse Brooks, who helped push for a data center moratorium in his town.

Jesse Brooks

This blue-collar trade no one is talking about could help you land a fast-growing AI job

Tech Insider : Business, Economy
Fiber optic cables
Fiber technicians are in high demand as data center development booms nationwide.

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A massive Oracle data center planned for rural Michigan secures $16 billion in funding

Tech Insider : Business, Economy
A digital rendering of a huge data center campus planned for rural Michigan
A digital rendering of the huge 1-gigawatt data center campus planned for Saline, Michigan, which will serve Oracle's AI business.

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Maine is the latest state to try — and fail — to ban new data centers

Tech Insider : Business, Economy, Environment
Maine Gov. Janet Mills vetoed a bill that would've paused data center development.

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

Tech Insider : Business
A fiber technician pulls cable at a data center.

Meta

Maine is poised to ban new data centers. These 11 other states tried and failed.

Tech Insider : Politics, Economy, Business
Active servers are seen at a Digital Realty data center in Ashburn, Virginia on November 12, 2025.
The data center infrastructure boom has taken off across the country as it meets local resistance.

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Utilities are spending $1.4 trillion to power the AI boom, and it's hiking up electric bills across the US

Tech Insider : Economy, Business
Entergy
An Entergy power plant in Texas.

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The Midwest's rise to America's second-biggest data center hub is fueled by these key states

Tech Insider : Economy, Business
Meta data center Wisconsin
Construction for a Meta data center campus is underway in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.

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10 power players behind the data center debt boom

Tech Insider : Business, Sports, Technology
John Greenwood, Quynh Tran, and Joe Jackson
Three of the financiers behind the boom: Goldman Sachs' John Greenwood, SMBC's Quynh Tran, and Apollo's Joe Jackson.

Goldman Sachs;SMBC; Apollo

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