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Amazon has paid more than $100 million to purchase two parcels of land for data centers in Fayette County next to Honda and LG's battery plant. Amazon Data Services Inc. purchased 243 acres of land ...

Industrial sprinklers sweep across darkening fields in Morrow County, Oregon, dispersing wastewater laced with nitrates at ...

Two corporate heavyweights are at odds as AI, data centers and rising electricity rates are implicated in the "affordability ...

Study finds Amazon data centers generate surplus revenue for utilities, funding grid upgrades and lowering costs for other ...

Amazon wants a discount on the massive amount of electricity their new data centers will use in central Ohio over the next decade. Amazon 's data center arm built more than $6 billion worth of data ...

Democratic senators are uncomfortable with mega corps like Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft making electricity bills higher ...

The yearlong policy debate stems from a request to generate more electricity for an Amazon artificial intelligence campus in Pennsylvania.

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Amazon Web Services has withdrawn its application to build a third data center in Louisa County, following backlash from county residents against the project. Attorney Charles W. Payne, representing ...

With power consumption by data centers and AI projected to more than quadruple in Virginia in the next 15 years, Amazon.com and Dominion Energy Virginia have entered into an agreement to explore ...

The inherent tension in collecting data is that it allows companies to tailor advertisements to what consumers want, but it can be abused when data is transferred, sold or stolen, explained Kevin ...