Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Tuesday, the Arkansas Connected Communities Association (ARCC) announced its formal establishment as a 501(c)(6) trade ...

Arkansas early childhood education providers rally outside the state Capitol in October 2025 after the state Department of Education announced dramatic cuts to a program that helps lower-income ...

PHOENIX—A new style of architecture is rising in the sprawling suburbs of the Sonoran Desert: windowless data centers that hum 24 hours a day and guzzle as much electricity as a midsize city. As ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A new law signed by Gov. Bill Lee signed new legislation aims to protect utility ratepayers’ pockets when new data centers come to town. The law, sponsored by Sen. Brent ...

Independent reporting you can trust. Secrecy may be standard operating procedure when it comes to economic development. But it makes for bad politics and potentially even worse policy, as the fight ...

Rows of exhaust stacks and diesel-fired generators are visible from the perimeter of Amazon’s data center campus in Canton, Miss. The facility has been approved to install over 300 diesel generators ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Lots of noise and lots of heat, that's how to describe giant data centers and the debate over where to build them. Large tech companies are building huge buildings filled with ...

You know a topic is the talk of the town when two articles appear on the same day on the same general topic in the same newspaper. But data centers are front and center these days. People are talking ...

A Nevada utility just told 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents that it’s redirecting 75% of their electricity supply to data centers — and they have less than a year to find a new power source. It’s one of ...

In the race to build data centers across Arkansas, the Google campus at West Memphis has taken the lead. Google is already hiring electrical engineers and facilities technicians. I spent several days ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland General Electric has received a green light from regulators to begin charging data centers higher rates, with the goal of making sure heavy power users are shouldering the ...