3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (345+ words) Columbus' plans to officially break ground on a fourth water treatment plant this month are on hold after no contractors bid on the massive construction project. The project has already driven higher than normal water rate increases for customers in…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (544+ words) The Ohio Supreme Court ordered officials in Trenton to allow residents to vote on a proposed ban on new data centers after finding that the city unlawfully blocked the petition from moving forward. A Sept. 1 decision from the state's high…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (601+ words) Piqua, Ohio, approved a 30-year power arrangement for a planned Meta data center, but not before residents spent hours warning officials that the community could be giving up too much for too little in return. On a roughly 607-acre site…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (481+ words) CNOOC Posts Record Profit as China Pumps More Oil at Home Norway’s oil production is at… The Trump administration’s new campaign… Georgia Power has secured regulatory approval for a contract to supply OpenAI’s planned project in Effingham County, Georgia, adding…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (474+ words) That increase has sharpened attention on a permit category that many residents previously had little reason to follow. For Georgia data centers, the permitting debate turns on whether backup power equipment should be treated as a limited operational safeguard or…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (399+ words) When the power goes out, a portable generator can feel like a lifeline, helping families keep food cold, charge phones, and run essential equipment. But after storms left more than 110,000 AEP Ohio customers without electricity, safety experts warned that one…...

4+ week, 10+ hour ago   (977+ words) The Georgia Aquarium’s two newest beluga whales have quickly acclimated to their new home after a 12-hour flight from the shuttered Marineland aquatic park on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, officials said. The two males, 10-year-old Balor and 7-year-old…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (545+ words) ATLANTA (WJBF) – A massive new data center campus is coming to Columbia County, as Georgia continues to attract major technology investments and faces growing demand for electricity. Google announced in July that it will be the sole operator of a…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (678+ words) The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and cloud computing is driving an unprecedented expansion of data centers across the United States. These facilities power everything from online banking and healthcare systems to national defense networks and the artificial intelligence technologies…...

4+ week, 1+ hour ago   (327+ words) Recent violent storms across Ohio have provided a reminder about just how much we take for granted our local farmers. Many were hit by another round of storms last week that destroyed this year's harvests. According to a report by…...