New research published in Sociological Forum suggests that participating in identity politics tends to be associated with ...

It was a belief that justified massive investments in analytics, AI, and real-time data infrastructure. And for a while, it ...

Chicago residents aren't always grateful for the city's erratic weather. But what if it helped the Cubs score fly balls?

AI data center activism is getting intense, and it can have tangible effects on the stock market. Companies with preexisting AI data centers stand to win the most, while companies that offer edge AI ...

Update 4/19/26: Added additional information from Vercel that was disclosed after publishing. Cloud development platform Vercel has disclosed a security incident after threat actors claimed to have ...

AI is helping employees create new apps and tools faster. That creative explosion comes with downsides. Some are calling this "AI sprawl." Amazon's retail business sees surge in duplicate internal ...

Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data. When Shanna Johnson was winding ...

Maine is set to pass a bill pausing new data centers until late 2027. Data centers face growing public resistance over environmental and infrastructure concerns. Maine's vote could mark the first-ever ...

April 15 (UPI) --Maine became the first state to pass a ban on new, large data centers on Tuesday. The bill passed both state houses and now must be signed by Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, before it ...

Immigration detention numbers have fallen to their lowest point since last fall, according to newly released data published with a long delay that the Department of Homeland Security attributed to a ...

The United States has more than 3,000 operational data centers, and that number is expected to grow substantially in the years ahead. More than 1,500 new data centers are in various stages of ...

Blackstone Inc. filed for an initial public offering of a new data-center acquisition vehicle that plans to buy already-built and leased properties benefiting from the artificial intelligence boom.