Documents show that one of Google’s new data centers would be powered by a natural gas plant that emits millions of tons of emissions each year—an increasingly common trend in the industry. A new data ...

The federal government’s requests for social media user data has dramatically spiked over the past decade, a new report found, revealing major technology platforms reported a 770 percent increase in ...

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 ...

SpaceX plans to leverage its experience with the Starlink constellation for its proposed orbital data center constellation of up to one million satellites. Credit: SpaceX Here’s the version of the ...

Following a contentious, roughly four-hour meeting Tuesday at which numerous residents aired their concerns about the proposal, the Yorkville City Council has given the green light to another data ...

One court case is what stands between the Trump administration and race-based data from colleges regarding admissions, which could be used to go after schools the federal government perceives as ...

Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually ...

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If you have a code repository or other work stored in GitHub, you need to be aware of a major change at the service: It’s will soon start using any data you store in GitHub to train AI models by ...

The city of Aurora has adopted strict new regulations on data centers, which set standards around energy and water use plus noise and other emissions. The regulations were approved by the Aurora City ...

When Jared Hewitt’s co-worker claimed last winter that Hewitt used AI to write an incident report, she did it publicly. “And I work at a day care, so she was berating me in front of children,” he says ...

Brandon N. Owens is an energy infrastructure strategist and the founder of AIxEnergy. Morgan Bazilian is the director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines. The race ...