The effort is drawing bipartisan support and is expected to come up again next year as officials grapple with the artificial intelligence boom’s side effects. States facing drought and dwindling ...

The explosive growth of data centers could threaten the stability of the electrical grid this winter, according to an industry overseer. Across North America, demand for electricity this winter is ...

Anthropic is starting to train its models on new Claude chats. If you’re using the bot and don’t want your chats used as training data, here’s how to opt out. Anthropic is prepared to repurpose ...

Reliance on fossil fuels is almost unavoidable — at least for now. By Evan Gorelick It’s been a big week for A.I. data centers. That means it’s also been a big week for coal and natural gas. Nvidia ...

Quietly but quickly, Phoenix has become one of the nation’s hotspots for a booming economic and technological phenomenon of late-stage capitalism: data centers – the boxy, sprawling farms of wire and ...

As California's population grows, the pressure increases on its finite natural resources. And one of those, water, is the subject of some concern, with the increase in data generation in the state.

In a quest to bolster a long-running claim from President Trump concerning undocumented immigrants illegally voting, the Justice Department is seeking detailed voter roll data from over 30 states. By ...

The Trump administration’s abusive efforts to repurpose millions of federal records and funnel them into a centralized government database represent a systemic shift toward a consolidation of ...

A sprawling $25 billion data center campus is set to break ground in north central West Texas, as the state's power grid continues to feel the strain of the rise of AI. Vantage Data Centers announced ...

AI Data Centers’ Soaring Energy Use: Who Pays for Higher Utilities Costs? Your email has been sent The rising number of AI data centers in the US could drive utility costs higher and has put parts of ...

Google has confirmed that some customers’ information has been stolen in a recent breach of one of its databases. In a blog post late on Tuesday, Google Threat Intelligence Group said one of its ...

Databases will soon be capable of monitoring their own health, identifying bottlenecks, adjusting configurations, and even rerouting traffic in real time. Generative AI has already had a profound ...