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 ...

The debate over artificial intelligence data centers began a new chapter on July 14 when New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the nation’s first statewide moratorium on new data centers. It was the right ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said House Republicans will get a briefing from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon on Tuesday evening as they consider the White House’s request for a $350 ...

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 ...

CNBC got an exclusive look inside GE Vernova's largest gas turbine plant in Greenville, South Carolina. Hyperscalers like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle are lining up to buy the company's gas ...

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WASHINGTON — The Great American State Fair officially kicked off Wednesday night, with a rally headlined by President Donald Trump that crowds waited through long lines and intense heat to attend. The ...

If you hang out in any even vaguely AI-skeptical parts of the Internet, you’ve probably stumbled on plenty of memes and posts premised on data centers’ insatiable thirst for water to power evaporative ...

Microsoft has resolved a known issue causing some Windows Server 2025 devices to boot into BitLocker recovery after installing the April 2026 security update. The BitLocker security feature encrypts ...

Massive data centers are popping up everywhere across the U.S. these days, including Meta's newest data center in Louisiana that's as big as 70 football fields. As AI expands its reach, the need for ...

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Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...