“Steel, concrete, and code”: Feds and Telus announce three AI data centres in BC | BetaKit

Projects include upscaling existing Kamloops data centre and two new, Vancouver-based centres.

Are AI data centers coming to your area?

This free, crowd-sourced tracker website is one of the most comprehensive attempts we’ve seen to keep tabs on where new data centers are being proposed. Maps are currently available across 18 states, with data compiled from public sources. You can read about the Data Center Proposal Tracker creator’s methodology here. [Image: Here’s a screenshot from the tracker showing sites around NYC. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/Screenshot-2026-04-16-100907.jpg?quality=90&strip=all]

One of East Coast’s largest data centers accused of ‘violating federal law'

Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators

How to Build an AI Data Center | IFP

Part One of Compute in America: Building the Next Generation of AI Infrastructure at Home

"Like Magic Intelligence in the Cloud", 2025.05.26 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

Because Sam Altman hates opening his laptop, OpenAI is merging with iPhone guy Jony Ive's design firm in the name of some mysterious new ChatGPT-enabled consumer products: Alex and Emily go full Mystery Science Theater and dissect the announcement video. Plus how tech billionaires like Sam Altman mythologize San Francisco while their money makes it less livable for everyone else.References:Sam Altman and Jony Ive are merging (Video)Emplacedness, real estate, and gentrification in San FranciscoAnthropic? More like anthropomorphicKaren Hao on her new book

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Datacenters in Utah: A Photo Essay - Rob Ricci's Writings

There's a lot of stuff going around about datacenters, so I've spent some time in the last week visiting some of the ones in northern Utah. I started with a qui...

Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land

Guardian analysis finds facilities to be built in some of the driest areas as outcry grows over water needed to power AI

People Hate Datacenters, Survey Finds

The data drops as Sen. Bernie Sanders calls for a moratorium on datacenter construction. 'We need to take a deep breath. We need to make sure that AI and robotics work for all of us, not just a handful of billionaires.'

AI Data Centers: Big Tech's Impact on Electric Bills, Water, and More via @ConsumerReports

Massive data centers are gobbling up resources across the United States. The boom has just begun—and you may be paying for it.

AI Is A Money Trap

In the last week, we’ve had no less than three different pieces asking whether the massive proliferation of data centers is a massive bubble, and though they, at times, seem to take the default position of AI’s inevitable value, they’ve begun to sour on the idea that

North Carolina Data Centers - 93 Facilities

Data Centers in North Carolina - List of Colocation and Cloud data facilities in North Carolina. Get Quotes and find Specs, Photos, Videos etc.

Anthropic taps SpaceX AI data center to expand Claude capacity

Anthropic taps SpaceX AI data center to expand Claude capacity