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AI Data Center News
Today's AI data center headlines, refreshed daily — plus our tracker of the newest mapped facilities in the AI build-out.
UPDATED AUGUST 27, 2026
Latest headlines
- OpenAI data center chief Chris Malone is out, the latest in a string of executive exits
- Huawei AI Data Center Bid in Egypt Spurs US to Mull Counter
- In a divided America, left and right unite to oppose artificial intelligence data centers
- The GOP'S Data Center Panic
- Column: The freak-out over AI data centers is creating a moral panic
- This A.I. Start-Up Aims to Reverse the Backlash Against Data Centers
- The multiplying risks of financing data centres
- As AI data centers expand, new cooling chemicals raise PFAS concerns
- US gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers by removing requirements for public input on pollution — EPA change would allow air pollution permits without publicizing them
- The data center era that's reshaping America
Headlines aggregated via Google News; each links to its original publisher.
From our build-out tracker
1,769Facilities tracked
8New since last refresh
390Virginia
205Texas
128Oregon
| Precision Prints Lufkin Datacenter | — | Texas |
| AT&T Tuckerton Cable Landing Station (TAT-14) | AT&T | New Jersey |
| Digital Realty | Digital Realty | California |
| Wall Township Cable Landing Station | Tata | New Jersey |
| Manasquan Cable Landing Station (TAT-14) | Sprint | New Jersey |
| GlobeNet Tuckerton Cable Landing Station | GlobeNet | New Jersey |
| Chirisa Technology Parks - Piscataway | Chirisa Technology Parks | New Jersey |
| New facility | — | Quebec |
Showing 8 of 8 newly mapped facilities since 2026-08-16.
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Background & context
The background: what makes an AI data center different, how much energy AI really uses, and the real water numbers.