COLUMBUS, Ohio—State officials’ approval of a $4.5 million tax break for a Northeast Ohio data‑center expansion was met with a chorus of online criticism, given that the project will only create 10 ...

Roughly one in five student interactions with generative artificial intelligence on school technology involved cheating, self-harm, bullying, and other problematic behaviors, according to data ...

BOTETOURT COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - The Western Virginia Water Authority this week released records detailing Google’s projected water use at a planned data center in Botetourt County, following a ...

Data center operators and utilities often do not disclose facility-specific energy and water usage data. The Republic built a database to estimate data centers' energy capacity by analyzing air ...

Water powers our lives. It feeds our crops, keeps factories running, generates electricity, and fills our taps. But until now, no one had a clear, national picture of how much water we're using—and ...

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Data centers have caused the demand for gas-fired power in the US to explode over the past two years, according to new research released Wednesday. More than a third of this new demand, the research ...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is asking companies to provide information about “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech” products that would “directly support investigations activities,” according to ...

Tech companies are building data centers as quickly as possible to run AI. These facilities are controviersial because they use copious amounts of electricity and might tax an electrical grid that in ...

Organizations have a wealth of unstructured data that most AI models can’t yet read. Preparing and contextualizing this data is essential for moving from AI experiments to measurable results. In ...