The U.S. Department of Energy said it has identified 16 federal sites, including storied nuclear research laboratories such as Los Alamos, where tech companies could build data centers in a push to accelerate commercial development of artificial intelligence technology.

The Trump administration identified 16 sites for the development of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers Thursday on land owned by the Department of Energy. The centers comprise rows of

An $10 billion natural gas-powered data center to serve the surging demands of artificial intelligence is being planned for the site of a former coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania.