BlackRock, based in New York, has asked regulators to approve a purchase of Minnesota Power, a company that provides power to 150,000 residential and business customers, largely in the northern Minnesota.
Local governments have fueled the growth of A.I. start-ups by building developments like Dream Town in Hangzhou, a city that is home to Alibaba, DeepSeek and a growing pool of A.I. talent.
In the race to develop artificial intelligence, tech giants are building data centers that guzzle up water. That has led to problems for people who live nearby.
Meta’s data center in Newton County, Ga., is 1,000 feet from the home of Jeff and Beverly Morris.
ASML, the Dutch company that makes multimillion-dollar tools to manufacture advanced semiconductors, is grappling with the repercussions of a tech trade war.
Big deals to sell chips to the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia have divided the U.S. government over whether they could be remembered for shipping cutting-edge A.I. overseas.