Big Tech is consuming vast amounts of electricity to power artificial intelligence, and ordinary households are paying the price. It's a tidy narrative with a villain, a victim, and a moral. It also ...

Consumers see data centers as the energy-hungry culprits behind rising energy prices. Utilities see data centers as large customers who could help finance grid upgrades. As the data center boom ...

Most Midwestern states offer partial or full sales tax exemptions from 20 to 50 years. The region has also shown an openness ...

Workers make changes to power lines (Mark Henninger/Imagic Digital) If you suspect data centers are impacting your electric bill in Pennsylvania, now is a good time to speak up. The Pennsylvania ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) joined the call for a national moratorium earlier this month, which he repeated in an ...

A deeper look at emissions data shows how A.I. centers and data centers can help nations build cleaner, more efficient digital economies. Unsplash+ The environmental footprint of A.I. and data centers ...

California legislators considered dozens of bills related to artificial intelligence this year. That’s a number that’s climbed quickly over the last couple years as lawmakers grapple with the ...

Ten Million Corals Are in the Path of a Federal Dredging Project in Florida Health Care Providers Are Dropping a Common Anesthesia Drug That’s Also a Climate Super Pollutant Now in its 25th Year, a ...

Microsoft moves toward autonomous, self-repairing data center platforms. Foundry enables long-running AI agents with persistent memory. Control Plane provides guardrails, IDs, and threat-aware ...

A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built. An extensive new analysis looks ...

The heat is starting to break, but plants are still wilted, and we are still conscious that water is precious — especially in California and other states in the West. Meanwhile, data centers here are ...

Beginner-friendly guide explaining how the internet works: how websites load, what a server is, and how data travels online, ...