The US federal government’s central energy information agency is planning to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use, according to a letter seen by WIRED.
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Meta’s $27 billion data center, currently under construction in Richland Parish, will require significant energy for its planned AI operations. To meet that demand, Entergy ...
Texas lawmakers spent hours this week grilling grid officials, data center developers and energy companies on potential impacts of the state’s data center boom as public backlash grows over its heavy ...
U.S. utility companies are planning to invest $1.4 trillion over the next five years to update the nation's ailing power grid as the data center boom intensifies the need for electricity. That's ...
NAACP sued Elon Musk's xAI, alleging Clean Air Act violations from the company's use of natural gas-burning turbines to power its data centers. XAI is building out its data infrastructure primarily ...
Maine is poised to become the first state to pass a temporary ban on data center construction after a measure was approved by both chambers of the state legislature. Similar bills have been introduced ...
The former Androscoggin Mill at 300 Riley Road in Jay is seen in April. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer) The Maine Legislature on Tuesday passed a controversial measure temporarily prohibiting new ...
As Texas confronts decades of water mismanagement and growing demands for electricity from data centers, the state’s top utility regulator, Public Utility Commission Chairman Thomas Gleeson, told a ...
Dubious data sets are being used to train artificial-intelligence models that are designed to predict people’s risk of stroke and diabetes, researchers report in a preprint 1 on medRxiv. Some of the ...
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Voters in Virginia, a global hub for the hulking warehouses of computers known as data centers, have turned sharply against the facilities after previously welcoming them, a Washington Post-Schar ...