The Hill

Data center electricity demand is expected to drive up costs after recent power auction

Data centers are expected to add billions in electricity costs across 13 states in the years ahead after a recent power auction. Grid operator PJM this week announced the results of an auction to buy ...
VentureBeat

SpaceX's Grok 4.5 launches at half the price of rivals — here's why that could rattle Anthropic and OpenAI

Elon Musk's SpaceX released Grok 4.5 on Wednesday, the first artificial intelligence model the company has trained specifically for coding and autonomous agents — and the first tangible product of its ...
TechCrunch

Another massive data breach exposed millions of driver’s license numbers

U.S. insurance provider AssuranceAmerica has confirmed a data breach affecting the personal information and driver’s license numbers of 6.9 million people, making it the largest known spill of ...
The Verge

AMD releases FSR 4.1 upscaling for older graphics cards

Support for the upscaling tech is also in development for RDNA APUs. Support for the upscaling tech is also in development for RDNA APUs. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He ...
Morning Call PA

Project Atlas data center back before South Whitehall planners. Here’s when, where

Residents interested in a proposed plan to build a massive data center across from Parkland High School are being encouraged to attend the July 9 meeting of the South Whitehall Township Planning ...
CNBC

Databricks sales growth tops 80%, but margin are shrinking from swarm of AI agents

Databricks said annualized revenue has jumped more than 80% from a year earlier and now sits at $6.9 billion, up from a figure of $5.4 billion in the fiscal fourth quarter. While Databricks is ...
Ars Technica

When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket

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 ...
The Verge

Amazon’s data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year

Amazon finally released annual water usage data and claims it’s actually more efficient than the others. Amazon finally released annual water usage data and claims it’s actually more efficient than ...
Wall Street Journal

Amazon Says Its Data Centers Used 2.5 Billion Gallons of Water in 2025

Amazon said its global data-center operations withdrew about 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025, as data center companies around the world face growing scrutiny over the environmental impact of ...
Bleeping Computer

Charter Communications data breach affects 4.9 million accounts

The ShinyHunters extortion gang stole personal information from 4.9 million accounts after hacking the U.S. telecom giant Charter Communications in early April, according to data breach notification ...
Wall Street Journal

Dell Technologies Gets $9.7 Billion Pentagon Contract

Dell Technologies DELL5.83%increase; up pointing triangle received a $9.69 billion contract from the Pentagon. The award is a firm-fixed-price blanket purchase agreement to streamline and consolidate ...