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TUCSON, Ariz. — If you live in or around Tucson, it's hard to avoid hearing about Project Blue. The large proposed data center would be built on 290 acres near the Pima County Fairgrounds. The company ...

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Data centers are driving up consumers' electricity costs, but experts say energy conservation hacks won't lower bills much.

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Hamilton residents voiced concerns to a planned data center that could, pending several factors including the results of two impact studies and a land sale, be under construction as early as next year ...

WASHINGTON — Story from The Conversation by Peyton McCauley, Water Policy Specialist, Sea Grant UW Water Science-Policy Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Melissa Scanlan, Professor and ...