Tech companies are running into resistance from neighbors and may not be able to build at the pace they promised investors. By Lydia DePillis The torrential wave of data center construction for ...

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 ...

March 12 (Reuters) - U.S. fossil fuel generation could rise over the next two years as surging electricity consumption from data centers tightens power supplies, the U.S. Energy Information ...

Canadian business process outsourcing giant Telus Digital has confirmed it suffered a security incident after threat actors claimed to have stolen nearly 1 petabyte of data from the company in a multi ...

A former employee of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency reportedly stole Americans’ personal data from the U.S. Social Security Administration and stored it on a thumb drive, according to ...

OpenAI is walking away from expanding its flagship Stargate data center with Oracle because it wants next-generation Nvidia chips at new sites instead. Oracle is the only major player funding the AI ...

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Communities are protesting new data centers due to environmental impacts and rising utility costs. Data centers require significant amounts of electricity and water, with consumption expected to grow.

The White House has floated a new plan to try to ease voter concerns over the A.I. boom’s effect on electric bills. But it won’t be easy to put into practice. By Brad Plumer Reporting from Washington ...

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American data analytics company LexisNexis Legal & Professional has confirmed to BleepingComputer that hackers breached its servers and accessed some customer and business information. The company's ...

Across the country, demand from data centers are pushing electric grids into new territory. The big question regulators keep running into: Who pays for the power? In Delaware, that question is playing ...