With no public hearings held, the Ohio Power Siting Board today approved the construction of a 350 megawatt natural gas fired ...

In October 2025, local officials celebrated the groundbreaking of a 1-gigawatt, $1.5 billion data center for the tech giant ...

El Paso Electric is seeking state approval to build a new natural gas-powered electric plant to support Meta Platform’s future data center needs – a move that is raising concerns among some city ...

On Jan. 14, Earthjustice filed a motion on behalf of the Alliance for Affordable Energy (AAE) and the Union of Concerned ...

Entergy Louisiana began construction Monday on a pair of gas power plants that will generate electricity for what will be the world’s largest data center. Entergy Corp., the largest investor-owned ...

And Meta isn’t the only company trying to convince the public to embrace the data center boom. The Financial Times reported ...

On Wednesday, a warning highlighted the growing energy demands of large technology companies, focusing on a planned Meta Platforms data center in Louisiana that could use three times more electricity ...

The Meta data center in Richland Parish has, since the announcement of its construction in December 2024, been rightly regarded as a major economic boon to one of the state’s poorest regions. In ...

The tech giant has spent more than $6 million on TV ads in state capitals and Washington, with the message that data centers create jobs.