Large language models have hoovered up publicly available data across the web. For artificial intelligence to have knowledge no other firm has, the data it trains on must be private. Asset managers ...

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming ...

John Steinbach was shocked to receive a $281 electricity bill in January 2026—a huge spike from the roughly $100 he’d paid the previous month. “It’s just so far beyond any bill that I’ve ever had,” he ...

BELOIT — About 200 people turned out for a meeting Wednesday at the Beloit Public Library to hear the environmental and financial concerns about data centers. The featured speaker was Beloit’s own ...

Multiple reports show the data centers used to store, train and operate AI models use significant amounts of energy and water, with a rippling impact on the environment and public health. According to ...

The UK government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has completed what it calls the “discovery phase” of its bid to create a National Data Library (NDL). The NDL was trumpeted ...

Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out. By Eric Niiler The ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- A data breach has prompted the precautionary closure of all Deschutes Public Library locations through the weekend, but library officials say they are confident no patrons' ...

A breach of the Deschutes Public Library system’s communications department data forced the library system to immediately shut down Friday— both its physical spaces and many of its online ones, too — ...

RUTHERFORD COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — Whistleblower Rutherford County Library Systems Director Luanne James claims the RCLS Board Chair, Cody York, instructed her to remove multiple books from the public ...

At least 16 data center projects, worth a combined $64 billion, have been blocked or delayed as local opposition mounts to the developments, according to a new study. Research collected by Data Center ...