Data Centers

National banks are committing billions of dollars to fund the construction. But there's room for smaller institutions and credit unions.

As political pushback builds, Visa and Mastercard say they're folding the energy impacts of data centers into existing environmental policy.

After two different community bank M&A deals, Flagstar Bank consolidated its data centers from six facilities to two as part of its tech integration strategy.

Banks and other companies are starting to face the true cost of buying AI services, and are already looking to cut corners.

Rating agencies, infrastructure analysts and stakeholders are asking questions about the modeling assumptions underpinning data center financings.

Plans were moving along smoothly for a new data center in Franklin County, Missouri — until residents found out about it. Now the project is facing a fierce public backlash, and a local community bank is caught in the crossfire.

"The secondary infrastructure demands [of data centers] will increasingly flow through to municipal balance sheets, driving incremental issuance across multiple sectors," said J.P. Morgan strategists.