Residents also oppose a data center the size of 18 Walmarts that is set to be built in pristine woodland outside Bessemer, Ala. “All this will be gone,” one said.

Judging by state and local filings alone, the U.S.' data center computing capacity could jump by close to 1,000% if all projects currently planned come to fruition.

Microsoft is set to expand its presence in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, with plans to build 15 new data centers across two ...

More than a dozen new data centers could soon be built within eyeshot of Beth and Neal Neubauer's backyard in Mount Pleasant.

Each data center and office space Microsoft is proposing is more than 560,000 square feet, which is nearly three times the ...