A hot potato: Residents in many US states have reacted angrily as AI data centers spring up across the country, citing environmental impacts and rising utility bills. In one particularly egregious ...

New York Magazine columnist Ross Barkan has been accused of plagiarism, launching an internal investigation into his past work. The accusation began on Thursday after Washington Post reporter Drew ...

DENVER — The Denver City Council unanimously approved a one-year moratorium on new data center development in the city, marking a major policy pause as officials work to establish new regulations. The ...

A small Alabama city strapped for water and economic stability is slated for a potential data center. New York-based IT company Edged Energy is proposing a $93 million data center for the city of ...

A unit about the size of an air conditioner, mounted in the side yard, could soon be humming away on artificial intelligence tasks, drawing power from your home’s energy supply and earning you ...

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A coalition of New Jersey groups is urging the state to temporarily halt the approval and construction of large-scale data centers, warning the booming artificial intelligence industry could cause ...

Data centers may be coming to your neighborhood as side installations associated with new homes—and in exchange would offer subsidized electricity and Internet access along with backup batteries to ...

The tourist and ski resort town of Lake Tahoe must scramble to find a new energy supplier by May 2027—a situation that stems in part from a Nevada utility company devoting more power capacity to new ...

A Nevada utility just told 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents that it’s redirecting 75% of their electricity supply to data centers — and they have less than a year to find a new power source. It’s one of ...

The data centres powering the AI boom already use more electricity than some small countries, and the International Energy Agency projects that their demand could reach 945 terawatt-hours a year – ...