FEMA flood maps left Michigan homeowners unaware of risk before historic spring floods

When record snowfall and rain swamped northern Michigan this spring, thousands of residents had no flood insurance — and no ...

No maps, no insurance: Michigan floods expose lack of information, preparation in many rural areas

Many homeowners hit by devastating Michigan floods had no insurance and no idea they were at risk — underscoring vulnerabilities throughout rural America as climate change causes more extreme weather ...
WSMV

How many data centers are there in Nashville? Here's a map of where they're located.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Data centers and artificial intelligence are at the center of a growing debate across the country — are they worth the advanced technology? Data centers are what fuel AI ...
The Conversation

5 ways data centers endanger their local communities and the country as a whole

Every internet search, streamed video and AI-generated response depends on a data center somewhere. Driven by rapid growth in artificial intelligence, cloud computing and cryptocurrency, data centers ...
WOOD-TV

‘We don’t want this’: Protesters flood Lowell Township data center meeting

LOWELL TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — People packed into a barn in Lowell Township Monday evening for a planning commission meeting about a proposed Microsoft data center in the area. The meeting was ...
Inc

This Map Tracks 4,000 AI Data Centers Being Built—and Reveals Where the Biggest Boom Is

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has launched a crowdsourced map that tracks more than 4,000 major AI data centers across the United States. The Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting website aims ...
The Conversation

How much water and power will AI data centres use in Australia? Ironically, we don’t have the data to know

Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...
Gizmodo

A Farmer Donated Land for a Public Park and the City Sold It to a Data Center Developer for $10 Million

The City of Taylor, Texas, is facing public outcry after residents found out a data center's being constructed on land donated as a public space. Reading time 4 minutes In Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 ...
Newsweek

Map: Which States Are Giving Biggest Tax Breaks for Data Centers

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. As some communities push back against the rapid expansion of data ...
The Boston Globe

Energy, water use, and pollution by data centers is expected to double in four years

WASHINGTON — The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world’s largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, which also predicts their water and ...
Reuters

EU plans energy standards for data centres amid concerns over soaring power use

EU eyes minimum efficiency rules for data centres Capacity set to double by 2030, lifting power demand Sustainability label planned amid energy concerns BRUSSELS, June 3 (Reuters) - The European Union ...
Detroit News

NJ is first in the nation for flood damage per square mile: report

New Jersey ranks first in the nation for the costliest flood damage per square mile, according to a new report from a Florida-based law firm. Cumulative flood damage cost New Jersey $31,751 per square ...