KENT COUNTY — The Lowell Township Board did not intend to discuss the controversial $1 billion Microsoft data center project on Monday, but hundreds of residents wouldn’t stay silent on the subject.

Microsoft is seeking approval to build 15 more data centers on the former Foxconn site in Mount Pleasant. Plans call for two large clusters of data centers, each spanning hundreds of thousands of ...

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Microsoft has promised to pay higher utility bills for all of its U.S. data centers powering artificial-intelligence models, President Trump said Monday, accelerating plans by the tech industry and ...

The tech giant laid out a five-point plan to address backlash in communities around the country over AI infrastructure buildouts. Microsoft is pledging to pay for the full costs borne by communities ...

Jan 13 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab on Tuesday unveiled an initiative to curb water usage at its U.S. data centers and limit the impact on the general population from any potential ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said that he does not want Americans to pay higher electricity bills because of data centers, adding that Microsoft (MSFT) will make changes beginning this week to ensure ...

Microsoft said on Tuesday that it would be taking a series of steps toward becoming a “good neighbor” in communities where it is building data centers—including promising to ask public utilities to ...

A senior Microsoft executive on Tuesday addressed the impact data centers have on the electrical costs for home consumers, an increasingly touchy subject that became a political hot button in November ...

LOWELL TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — The previously unnamed company looking to build a data center near Lowell is Microsoft, it said in a letter to the community. “We are introducing ourselves now because ...

Microsoft (MSFT) announced today it has acquired Osmos, an agentic artificial intelligence data engineering platform designed to simplify complex data workflows. No financial details on the ...

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