A proposed $500 million data center in Sangamon County could be voted on as early as April 7. Here's what to know.

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SPRINGFIELD -- After a sometimes emotional three-and-half hour meeting, the Sangamon County Board tabled a key zoning ...

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Early last year, a cluster of data centers in Virginia suddenly dropped off the power grid, threatening the stability of the already vulnerable system. The roughly 40 data centers, which had been ...

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The GW Ranch project approved on 8,000 windswept acres of West Texas will look like many of the other data centers that have sprung up across the country to support Silicon Valley’s ambitions for ...

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