Alphabet buys data center energy provider Intersect for $4.75B to power cloud, AI ops

Alphabet (GOOG) (GOOGL) is buying data center and energy infrastructure solutions company Intersect for $4.75B, the Google ...
Data Center Frontier

AWS Scales AI Infrastructure Across Data Centers, Power, and Networks

As 2025 comes to a close, AWS is scaling AI infrastructure across data centers, customer sites, and global networks; rolling ...
techtimes

Cloud Computing vs. Edge Computing: Which One Will Power the Next Era of Technology?

Cloud vs edge computing represents a fundamental shift in how organizations manage, store, and process data. While traditional cloud computing centralizes massive computing resources in data centers, ...
Crude Oil Prices

NextEra and Google Cloud Partner to Power AI Boom with Gigawatt Data Centers

NextEra Energy and Google Cloud announced a strategic partnership on Monday to jointly develop gigawatt-scale data center campuses across the United States, a move designed to address the surging ...
The Shreveport Times

What is a data center? Here's what it does, why it matters

Data centers are facilities that house equipment to store, process and deliver large amounts of digital data. These centers power common online services like websites, cloud storage, streaming and ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Epic integration at center of Prime’s Maine system acquisition

In late November, Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare’s nonprofit public charity, Prime Healthcare Foundation, received state approval to acquire Lewiston-based Central Maine Healthcare. The ...
Reuters

NextEra, Google accelerate US data center build-out with new deals

NextEra and Google to develop and power new data center campuses in the U.S NextEra partners with ExxonMobil for natural-gas power with carbon capture Meta and NextEra sign 2.5 gigawatts in power ...
Bloomberg L.P.

NextEra Shares Fall Amid Push to Move Into Data Centers and Gas

NextEra Energy Inc., the big clean-power developer that’s been pivoting into natural gas generation preferred by President Donald Trump, announced Monday a flurry of plans to develop data centers and ...
The Washington Post

Supersized data centers are coming. See how they will transform America.

This coal plant in central Pennsylvania, once the largest in the state, was shuttered in 2023 after powering the region for over 50 years. Earlier this year, wrecking crews blasted the plant’s cooling ...
Fox Business

Arizona city unanimously rejects AI data center after residents' outcry

The Chandler, Arizona, city council voted unanimously Thursday against clearing the way for construction of an AI data center. Cheers and applause erupted after the unanimous vote outcome was ...
MLive

At least 16 sites eyed for data centers in Michigan amid AI boom. Here’s where

Michigan may remember 2025 as the year of the data center. Developers have eyed at least 16 sites in 10 counties across the Lower Peninsula for the power-hungry server warehouses supporting artificial ...
AZFamily

Chandler unanimously votes against proposed AI data center

CHANDLER, AZ (AZFamily) — The Chandler City Council voted late Thursday night against an artificial intelligence data center project following hours of comments from community members. The final vote ...