Data centers in outer space emerge as solution to AI's massive energy requirements

AI data centers in space offer sustainable computing solutions, avoiding Earth's storms and cyber threats while reducing the ...

Surging electricity rates put data centers on 2026 ballot. Here's why.

Energy-guzzling data centers powering AI are in the hot seats as voter anger over surging electric bills becomes a major ...
ProPublica

Data Centers Demand a Massive Amount of Energy. Here’s How Some States Are Tackling the Industry’s Impact.

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Seattle Times. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. When ...
CNET

Data Brokers and Personal Data Deletion Services: What You Should Know

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a ...
The Washington Post

Internet data centers are fueling drive to old power source: Coal

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — A helicopter hovers over the Gee family farm, the noisy rattle echoing inside their home in this rural part of West Virginia. It’s holding surveyors who are eyeing space for yet ...
Bloomberg L.P.

AI Is Draining

Each time you ask an AI chatbot to summarize a lengthy legal document or conjure up a cartoon squirrel wearing glasses, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: ...
Fox News

Data broker blunder: More than 600,000 sensitive files exposed in data services leak

There are companies whose entire business model is built around collecting personal data, including criminal records, employment details, addresses and more. They use this data to offer background ...
NPR

Data breaches have become a fact of modern life. How concerned should Americans be?

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with MIT professor Stuart Madnick about the frequency of data breaches, and what people should do if their personal information is compromised in one. If you've recently ...
Time

How to Check if Your Information Was Compromised in the Social Security Number Breach

Billions of personal information records may have been exposed in April after a hacking group gained access to records from the background check service National Public Data (NPD), prompting warnings ...
TechCrunch

ServiceNow acquires Data.World months after snatching up Moveworks

Enterprise workflow management platform ServiceNow on Wednesday announced its second AI-related acquisition this year. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Data.World was most recently valued at ...
NPR

Data centers, backbone of the digital economy, face water scarcity and climate risk

Data centers are springing up around the world to handle the torrent of information from the expanding web of devices ingrained in people's lives and the economy. Managing that digital information ...
TechCrunch

Data collection isn’t the problem: It’s what companies are doing with it

Data is a company’s most powerful asset. Yet, many businesses cannibalize this valuable asset by selling it to third parties when they should be using it to make their businesses stronger and more ...