Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and other big, well-known technology companies are buying up dozens of acres of land in Ohio and announcing plans to build vast data centers. It's a trend that is ...

the U.S. is seeing a rapid rise in data center development and a surge in demand for power to fuel the additional load. Leading research estimates that data centers could consume up to 9% of U.S ...

Data centers support 84,900 Ohio jobs Data center industry makes economic case Ohio not major player in industry A new report from a data center trade association seeks to counter growing data ...

The data center industry supported more than 485,000 jobs and contributed $35 billion in labor income to Texas in 2023, a new study from the Data Center Coalition reported Wednesday morning.

The data center market is booming ... million in an investment from private equity firm TJC and an additional $600 million in a secondary share offer. Raul K. Martynek, DataBank’s CEO, said ...

Johor in Malaysia is being transformed by the construction of giant data centers JOHOR BAHRU, Malaysia -- Winson Lau has always had contingency plans. But he wasn't prepared for data centers.

Despite predictions about its demise, the enterprise data center is alive and well, as strategic on-prem use cases remain and data center tech modernizes. In 2019, Gartner analyst Dave Cappuccio ...

Within the next two years, it will also become home to more data centers for companies like Microsoft and Amazon. What is a data center? Is it the same as a server farm? Let’s look at the ...

How to address emissions concerns for power-hungry data centers Data centers are a critical, but often power-hungry, part of the enterprise. But, why exactly do data centers require so much energy?

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — According to Data Center Map, there are 173 data centers in Ohio, 106 of which are in Columbus. The economic impact of these data centers has been widely discussed ...

Exxon Mobil chairman and CEO Darren Woods used the company's fourth-quarter earnings call on Friday to remind investors that nuclear-powered data centers are a long way away from the current reality.

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