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Where AI lives: Southeast Asia's data centre boom

Where AI lives: Southeast Asia's data centre boom

Nonstop buzzing fills a windowless Microsoft data centre near Jakarta, part of a tech construction boom sweeping Southeast Asia that promises economic opportunities but is also hungry for resources. As demand for artificial intelligence heats up, technology giants are racing to invest billions of dollars in the region, attracted by

Eastern Montana data center land deal sparks lawsuit over 'stolen' plans

Before Quantica Infrastructure announced their plans for a data center south of Broadview last summer, another developer had its own plans in the works since 2020, according to a lawsuit filed Jan. 9. That developer was FX Solutions. Headed by Missoulian Rick Tabish, the company had purchased hundreds of acres

Montana's 0% statewide sales tax may be attracting big data centers

Montana's lack of a statewide sales tax could definitely be a factor in why there's interest from big data center companies looking to build facilities and buy power here. The CEO of NorthWestern Energy, Brian Bird, recently gave an update to investors in which he revealed

Data center or not, Silver Lake water system a gem for Butte-Silver Bow County

On a professional level, there’s nothing more important to Jim Keenan than water in Butte-Silver Bow County. His job, big picture, is ensuring residents in Butte-Silver Bow have clean drinking water to live on and Butte’s biggest plants and mining ventures have the industrial water they

NorthWestern Energy: 11 more data center firms eyeing Montana, South Dakota

There are nearly a dozen more data center companies interested in buying NorthWestern Energy's electricity than the ones already in the intermediate stages of planning. NorthWestern Energy recently revealed it is conducting "high-level assessments" with five data center companies who'd like to buy

Power drain: A guide to proposed data centers so far in Montana

Over the last year, data center companies from around the country have staked out Montana with a bullseye as the place to build giant new facilities. And the largest monopoly utility in the state, NorthWestern Energy, has been happy to oblige them so far. NorthWestern has signed Letters of Intent

Report mostly favorable to Sabey data center in Butte, but criticisms and concerns remain

The report hasn’t quieted criticisms from some citizens and watchdog groups who say the committee was stacked with data center proponents