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The first quarter of 2026 saw the most blocked and delayed data center projects on record A generic photo of a data center (Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.) The booming AI data center industry has been fraught with controversy and growing resistance, with seven in 10 Americans reportedly against constructing them in their area, nearly half of whom were strong

An 86-year-old Pennsylvania  farmer is going viral — not for selling his land, but for refusing to. Mervin Raudabaugh Mervin Raudabaugh, a  dairy farmer in Cumberland County, says he has owned his 261 acres for more than 60 years. He spent 51 of those years as a dairy farmer, building not just a livelihood, but a legacy. Recently, he says he was offered $15 million from a data cen

CHEYENNE — The Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities has identified Goat Systems LLC, a contractor working on Meta's in-progress data center campus in the High Plains Business Park, as the source of a discharge that introduced the bacteria Cupriavidus gilardii into the city's wastewater treatment system. Frank Strong, BOPU's engineering and water resource division manager, told the Wyoming Tribune

The American company TRIC Robotics is taking ultraviolet crop protection from laboratory research to commercial-scale farming. Its autonomous machines operate at night in California strawberry fields, treating plants with UV-C light while also mechanically removing insects with a vacuum system. In June 2026, the company reported that two robots operating in a commercial field near Santa Maria c

Across the US, 162 million people in 35 states face extreme heat warnings, intensifying through the week, while deadly wildfires rage in the Western US, claiming three firefighters' lives. Nearly 162 million Americans from 35 states are under extreme heat alerts as deadly wildfires continue to burn in the Western US, with the heat expected to intensify during the week. Cities in

The environmental activist is gathering community concerns on AI data centers across the US. Data centers have drawn increased scrutiny and resistance, with concerns about water shortages, noise and air pollution and the depletion of land and energy resources. halbergman/Getty Images Data centers have become a high-stakes battleground. Amid booming demand for AI infrastructure, resident

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres has called on major artificial intelligence companies to publicly disclose the environmental impact of their operations, warning that the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure could place enormous pressure on global energy and water resources. United Nations Secretary General António Guterres has called on major artificial intel

Over the past 24 hours, our planet has offered a stark reminder of the immense, dynamic forces continuously at work beneath our feet. A dramatic sequence of earthquakes across vastly different global fault lines has drawn the world's attention to the restless nature of Earth's crust. From the destructive shocks in South America to the deep tremors echoing along the Pacific Ring of Fire, this simul

Geneva — The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended Thursday due to unsafe conditions after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before. The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month as a precaution. State Councilor Stéphane Ganzer tol