National and state political leaders are rushing to regulate and incentivize the rapidly growing data center industry.

To grow its economy, China is betting big on artificial intelligence, cloud computing and other digital technology—and a big part of that bet involves rapidly building data centers to boost computing power.

(Reuters) -CoreWeave plans to spend up to $6 billion on building a new artificial intelligence data center in Pennsylvania, as part of a push by U.S. President Donald Trump to maintain the country’s edge in the booming technology sector, the company said on Tuesday.

The Shapiro administration is slashing red tape and has given developers the green light so Pennsylvania will move at the “speed of business” and become a global competitor in AI. Not everyone is happy about it.

CoreWeave, which rents out access to Nvidia AI chips, has been on a tear since it went public at the end of March.

Elon Musk's xAI is in discussions to lease data center capacity in Saudi Arabia, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The startup is in discussion with two potential partners: Humain,

Gartner predicts 2025 data center buying will continue despite pause on net-new spending due to political uncertainty.

The Japanese telecom giant’s data-center arm is aiming to pour billions into its business to meet rising demand for artificial-intelligence computing and other uses, its chief executive said.