data centers

"Fuel costs for gas-fired generation for the entire operational length of the project need to be clearly factored into the decision process," one co-author said.

The U.S. already has about 3,000 data centers — and that number is expected to grow quickly in the coming years. A new report finds much of that growth is shifting away from cities and into rural areas, including in the Mountain West.

The Data Center Water Transparency Amendments require server farm developers to provide an estimate of future water use.

As data centers rapidly expand across the Mountain West, researchers say a key question is getting harder to answer: how much water are they actually using?

Wind and solar power are rapidly expanding across the Mountain West, with some states now generating a significant share of their electricity from renewable sources, according to a new report from Climate Central, a nonpartisan research group.

Non-residential construction jobs are up, partly due to new data centers. But the number of people opting to enter the workforce is decreasing.

Topics included how to transition off of coal and how to respond to the AI data center boom.

Federal and Wyoming leaders look to widen tap from Meta and Microsoft.

Kootenai County, Idaho paused data center development to pass regulations to protect water resources and require a public process.

But critics say the Trump administration’s request does little to hold big tech companies accountable