Most are in the Portland Metro area, Central Oregon near Prineville, and Eastern Oregon near Hermiston and Boardman. A data center can use as much electricity as 50,000 homes.

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The data company Cologix has started work on a $1 billion AI data center complex in the Lewis Center area, part of a larger central Ohio expansion for the Denver company.

Big data centers connecting to power grids is now one of the greatest near-term risks to reliability, according to a rare warning by the US agency charged with overseeing the sector.

Ardent operates data centers in Boden, Sweden; and Lefdal and Kristiansand, Norway. The Lefdal site is hosted by Lefdal Mine, and Kristiansand by Bulk. The company is planning a large development in ...

Total power usage in the US is expected to climb 2.15% in 2026, spurred largely by a 5% spike from commercial users because of the expansion of data centers, according to a US Energy Department ...

Louisa County announced the sale of the Shannon Hill Regional Business Park to EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure. This will be the third data center in Louisa County, following the Amazon Web Services ...

The Ohio Power Siting Board on June 9 authorized a 200 megawatt natural gas-fired electric power plant along Morse Road, just east of Beech Road.

Source: Fairfax County The previous zoning ordinance permitted data centers in various commercial and industrial districts, with specific standards for equipment enclosure and building size.

An AI-related provision in the “Big Beautiful Bill” could restrict state-level legislation of energy-hungry data centers—and is raising bipartisan objections across the US.