Jan 14 (Reuters) - Connecting to the U.S. electrical transmission system has become the biggest problem for powering up Google data centers on the grid, as the wait times to connect surge to more than ...

13 January 2026 - UN DESA’s Statistics Division has been tasked with modernizing the UN’s data and statistical infrastructure in line with the Secretary-General’s Data Strategy. A key milestone in ...

SEATTLE — Luis remembers the morning clearly. It was just after 6:30 a.m. when his father left their home in Renton and was near The Landing, heading to work. Minutes later, immigration agents ...

Giant AI data centers are causing some serious and growing problems – electronic waste, massive use of water (especially in arid regions), reliance on destructive and human rights-abusing mining ...

ChatGPT maker OpenAI has confirmed a security incident, which it says is not its fault. The data breach involves a third-party analytics provider, Mixpanel, which resulted in the exposure of limited ...

An international team of researchers has released an artificial intelligence system capable of autonomously conducting scientific research across multiple disciplines — generating papers from initial ...

Microsoft Corp. will rent capacity from Nscale at a data center in Portugal, as the US tech company expands its computing resources to meet growing demand for artificial intelligence. The project, ...

Vast amounts of valuable research data remain unused, trapped in labs or lost to time. Frontiers aims to change that with FAIR² Data Management, a groundbreaking AI-driven system that makes datasets ...

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Not being able to turn off Send optional diagnostic data settings undermines our privacy and control and can be really frustrating. This issue often occurs when system policies, background services, ...

Under the proposal, the mid-Atlantic grid would turn off power to data centers before ordering rolling blackouts in an emergency. The potential threat to grid reliability from supersize AI data ...

(Reuters) -U.S. household wealth rose to a record $176.3 trillion in the second quarter on the back of a resurgent stock market and climbing property prices, data from the Federal Reserve showed on ...