As a country, we are spending more to get data centers up and running than we spent to build the entire interstate highway system. (Yes, that's inflation-adjusted.) With tech companies spending ...

On Wednesday, the announcement of a new artificial intelligence data center in Louisiana came just hours before state regulators voted on how to balance economic development with ratepayer guardrails.

The lawmakers also cite a report from Bloomberg, which found that electricity costs have increased 267% from five years ago for US areas located near significant data center activity. “The contracts ...