The facilities can spur regional economic growth but increase electricity bills as well as carbon emissions.

Single-family home building and manufacturing plant construction are bright spots in an uninspiring general picture.

Data centers are getting taller and slicker as they move closer to urban and suburban areas.

The arctic nation wants to become a global capital of hard drives and servers.

And the business of data centers for cloud computing is only growing.

The hunt is on for data storage centers which use energy more efficiently