A state at the beginning of the journey is racing to build out infrastructure. Data Center Alley offers lessons on what did and didn’t work.

OMAHA — From the highway, Facebook's planned data center south of Papillion appears to be little more than 134 acres of dirt and construction trailers. Tractors move earth, cars come and go, a mound ...

Google recently courted the township of Franklin, Ind., so that it could construct a giant campus to house the computer hardware that powers its internet business. But the company needed to rezone ...