A viral TikTok is igniting a debate over data centers taking over Virginia's countryside

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A data center is under construction in Ashburn in Loudon County, Virginia, on July 16, 2023.
Data centers have come to dominate Northern Virginia.

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AI execs who urgently need more energy to power their tech revolution are turning to fossil fuels

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Demand for data centers is expected to grow as companies use AI, fueling a need for nonrenewable energy sources.

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Meet a startup trying to keep your screen time from destroying the planet

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Demand for data centers is expected to grow as companies use AI.

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Get ready for 'AI factories'

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (L) and Foxconn CEO Young Liu announcing their partnership to build "AI factories."

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Phoenix plans to build gas plants to help power new data centers

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To keep up with demand, a Phoenix utility under a recently approved plan could add some two gigawatts of new natural-gas plants by 2035.

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Amazon dominated the first cloud era. The AI boom has kicked off Cloud 2.0, and the company doesn't have a head start this time.

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy

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AI has a big, dirty problem that is tarnishing Big Tech's environmental image

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Construction workers building a new Facebook data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah, in May 2019.

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