Data Centers

Drought grips the Four Corners as reservoir levels fall, farmland values rise and rural communities confront new demands on limited water supplies.

Presenters offered widely different perspectives about artificial intelligence, or AI, at two recent regional presentations.

Do you use ChatGPT? Do you talk to Siri on your phone? If so, you’ve helped fuel the rise in data centers. Now, the energy-hungry, water-thirsty centers are coming to places in the Southwest, including the lands of native peoples.

Sponsors of industry-backed data center bill say they are amending it in ways that will change the fiscal projections.