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A build-out of new data centers — the often-gargantuan warehouses of power-gobbling microchips that power cloud computing, artificial intelligence and social media — is capturing the attention of ...

Oklahoma is seeing a data center boom, along with unverified claims about the projects. The Frontier used state records, testimony from public meetings, news archives and other sources of information ...

Missouri and Kansas give the AI giants huge tax breaks, and they suck up enormous amounts of electricity and water. | Opinion ...