Data centers are rapidly reshaping America’s technology, energy, and economic landscape. Data Center Reporter is launching to provide focused, independent coverage of where these facilities are being built, who is financing them, how communities are responding, and what their growth means for energy, water, the environment, local economies, and public policy.
Our coverage will focus on the issues shaping the data center expansion nationwide, including local opposition to proposed facilities, state and local regulation, electricity demand and energy costs, water use, environmental impacts, economic development, financing, and the companies investing billions of dollars in new projects.
Data Center Reporter will also examine how the rapid growth of artificial intelligence is changing the scale and location of data center development. We will follow major projects from proposal through construction, while reporting on the decisions being made by local officials, state governments, utilities, regulators, developers and investors.
Our goal is straightforward: to give readers timely, accessible reporting that helps them understand where America’s data center boom is heading, who is driving it, and how it is affecting communities across the country.