Wired

Data Broker Breaches Fueled Nearly $21 Billion in Identity-Theft Losses

A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats say breaches tied to the industry have cost people tens of billions of dollars.
Los Angeles Times

Data center construction fell for the first time in years as permits and power constrain growth

Construction of new data centers in the U.S. fell for the first time since 2020 despite soaring demand for artificial-intelligence computing capacity, as developers face delays in permitting, zoning ...
Mashable

Conduent data breach already one of largest in U.S. history and keeps getting worse

Things keep getting worse the more we learn about the Conduent data breach. At least 25 million people were affected by the breach — and that's just in two states. A reported 15 million people were ...
NOLA.com

Amazon AI data centers to be built in northwest Louisiana: 'Something unlike we have ever seen'

Gov. Jeff Landry announced what he called "the largest investment in the history of Northwest Louisiana" on Monday, two Amazon Web Services AI data centers to be built in Caddo and Bossier Parishes.
Engadget

Orbital AI data centers could work, but they might ruin Earth in the process

Elon Musk's plan to launch millions of AI satellites could be disastrous for the planet. (Lily Padula for Engadget) At the start of the month, Elon Musk announced that two of his companies — SpaceX ...
City Journal

Is Elon Musk Right About Putting Data Centers in Space?

Data centers in outer space? It makes sense, according to Elon Musk, hence the recent tectonic, trillion-dollar merger announced between his SpaceX and xAI companies. Whether it’s sensible, or just ...
CNBC

Meta expands Nvidia deal to use millions of AI chips in data center build-out, including standalone CPUs

Meta struck a massive chip deal with Nvidia that includes new standalone CPUs and next-generation GPUs and Vera Rubin rack-scale systems. The social media giant will also use Nvidia for networking ...
KXAN

Texas regulators will ask data centers to begin reporting their water usage

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Utility regulators in Texas will start asking data centers and crypto-mining operations statewide within a narrow timeframe to share information about how much water they’re using and ...
CNN

With ICE using Medicaid data, hospitals and states are in a bind over warning immigrant patients

The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is putting hospitals and states in a bind as they weigh whether to alert immigrant patients that their personal ...
GeekWire

SpaceX seeks go-ahead from the FCC to put up to a million data center satellites in orbit

This time-lapse image of Venus and the Pleiades shows the tracks of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. The image received an award in the 2021 IAU OAE Astrophotography Contest. (Torsten Hansen / IAU OAE / ...
WSMV

A massive data center is being pushed in a ‘blink and you miss us’ Kentucky town. Locals are pushing back.

Developers want to build a data storage and service center consisting of three 200,000-square-foot facilities with its own power manufacturing facility, in a town of less than 11,000 people. FRANKLIN, ...
CNN

Here’s how AI data centers affect the electrical grid

Tech giants are in a heated race to build data centers and dominate the AI landscape. But America might not be ready for the energy demand. The country’s aging electrical grid could struggle to keep ...