Silicon Valley investors such as Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel have bet hundreds of millions of dollars on deploying AI ...

DuckDB Labs recently released DuckLake 1.0, a data lake format that stores table metadata in a SQL database rather than ...

As Raleigh prepares to implement water restrictions on Monday amid the ongoing drought, attention is turning to how much water large data centers could use and how that demand is managed during dry ...

The US federal government’s central energy information agency is planning to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use, according to a letter seen by WIRED.

CINCINNATI—Late at night, or when her 18-month-old daughter is napping, Jessica Sharp logs onto Chat GPT and asks it to help her in her fight to stop a data center from being built just steps away ...

A hot potato: GitHub has announced that starting April 24, the company will begin using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve its AI models unless they opt out.

NEW YORK, March 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy's information arm will launch a series of pilot surveys on Wednesday aimed at gauging the energy use of the country's data centers, the ...

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 ...

Google has signed agreements with five U.S. electric utilities in states from Arkansas to Minnesota to curtail its electricity use during periods of peak demand, the company said on March 19, in its ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. FBI searches of U.S. person data collected using a controversial spying authority rose some 35% in 2025, according to an FBI letter to ...

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