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Louisiana Hands Meta a Tax Break and Power for Its Biggest Data Center

The agreement sets out hiring timelines that the company must also hit to receive these tax incentives: Meta can receive the highest property...

Big Tech Dreams of Putting Data Centers in Space

For one thing, the systems he imagines process data relatively slowly compared to those on terra firma. They’d be constantly bombarded by radiation,...

How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying

“People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses,” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, wrote in an aside in...

Donald Trump Wants to Save the Coal Industry. He’s Too Late

The promise of new demand is driving some utilities to reconsider scheduled coal plant retirements. In Virginia, where Amazon Web Services keeps 96...

Big Tech Will Scour the Globe in Its Search for Cheap Energy

On the southern tip of Malaysia lies the state of Johor, renowned for its beaches and mountainous jungle. But Johor has a new...