HOBART, Ind. (WGN) – The city of Hobart, Indiana voted to approve a fill permit for Amazon to move forward with on site soil grading for a data center, much to the dismay of many of its residents.

In these politically divisive times, there’s one thing we all agree on—we don’t want a giant data center in our backyard. Behold, the hyperscale data center! Massive structures, with thousands of ...

Taylor Frazier McCollum remembers when Landover Mall in her Prince George’s County neighborhood was a staple in family moments. It was the place where she felt safe trick-or-treating in a costume for ...

RYDER, N.D. — Tyler Stafslien is a fourth-generation farmer who’s worked his family’s land in central North Dakota for about 20 years. Roughly half of his 2,500 acres are typically dedicated to ...

Electricity prices are surging, voters are growing angry, and the artificial intelligence industry's data centers are increasingly a target for blame with U.S. mid-term elections on the horizon.

Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. The Common Crawl Foundation is little known outside of Silicon Valley. For more ...

Cheniere Energy (LNG) expects to export more than 50 million metric tons of liquefied natural gas for the first time next year, CEO Jack Fusco said Thursday. The increase is being driven by the ...

The kingdom is pouring money into data centers and working with U.S. and Chinese tech giants, landing its A.I. ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle for tech power. Credit...Photo ...

A financially motivated threat actor is flipping the phishing playbook by getting victims to make the first email contact with the attacker rather than the other way around. The scam involves the ...

For an exercise in irony, take a moment to ask ChatGPT why large data centers — noisy and voracious consumers of energy and water — are necessary. The answer it gives is long and complicated, but what ...

Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics head. In Argentina, the government manipulated the inflation rate. Economists went rogue to calculate the real rate, and people lost trust in the numbers.