Companies know how to build data centers that won’t alienate communities. But their desire to build these AI-processing plants faster than ever has resulted in sprawling, polluting, noisy, thirsty ...

Taylor Budowich is the founder and president of Innovation Council. When many teachers in Richland Parish, Louisiana, opened this year’s annual bonus checks, they found them 400 percent larger than ...

Until a few years ago, setting up a new iPhone always meant losing something. Half your settings gone. Some apps needed reinstalling from scratch and you wouldn't know until you went looking for them.

A judge has identified what appears to be the first time a US plaintiff has attempted to hide text in court filings that only an artificial intelligence system can read in a bid to win a case. In a ...

On the surface, upscaling a photo seems like a simple enough task. You open your photo editing tool of choice, find the size adjustment menu, enter the new size for your photo and the app does the ...

A $15 million aquatic center with a six-lane pool, waterslides and a lazy river opened in Quincy, Washington, a few weeks ago. It’s part of the public parks splurge in the city, which will culminate ...

Letters notifying people that their personal information has been involved in a data breach are becoming increasingly common, leaving many wondering if the notifications are legitimate and what steps ...

Last year’s elections in a handful of states showed the potential of the country’s rapid buildout of hyperscale data centers as a tension point in campaigns up and down the ballot. Now, opposition to ...

A power line went down outside of Washington, DC, this week. Normally, the grid would only need a few seconds to recover from such an event. But this one took more than 10 minutes because data centers ...

One-year construction ban will apply to data centers using 50 megawatts or more, official says Backlash against data centers among communities has become a heated political issue Hochul to pursue ...

A.I. chatbots are not just a propaganda tool for violent extremists but are aiding in bomb construction and attack planning, new research finds. By Dustin Volz and Eric Schmitt Reporting from ...

Consider this a belated PSA: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings is allowing the company to store more of your data, including media such as “images, files, and audio and video recordings,” ...