Getting data centers to generate their own electricity may ease one obstacle to public acceptance of data centers. But it creates new hurdles.

Virginia senators are pushing to curtail a 5.3% tax break for data centers. The policy proposal comes while many communities are trying to defeat data center projects in zoning proceedings and ...

The signs are still early, but these sparks of innovation may signal the start of a nation without heavy central control, where those long ignored supply most of their own electricity, ...