In 2024, a state senator introduced a bill in the Colorado Legislature that proposed to bestow data centers and other large-volume users of energy with tax incentives. The senator, a Democrat from ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed a bill to subject the state's data centers to increased regulation in Florida.

Editor's note: This is the first of three feature articles Ars is publishing to explore the financial, technical, and competitive dimensions of orbital data centers. Although the idea of putting data ...

Racks of servers inside an AWS data center in 2023. (AWS Photo / Noah Berger) Lisa Karstetter grew up in Eastern Washington’s agricultural country. By the mid-2000s, she was running the Quincy Valley ...