Artificial intelligence is fueling stock market highs, economic growth and a construction boom across the country. But it is also igniting fierce local debates about the benefits, the costs and whether the data centers that power AI should be built at all. Economics correspondent Paul Solman looks at how one of those battles is playing out in the Midwest.

AI demand has brought billions in financing to little-known developers, while putting them at the center of fights over electricity, pollution and land.

Peachtree Group CEO Greg Friedman warns of data center bubble risks amid record AI-driven construction, with implications for crypto mining and digital