Futurism

You’ll Choke When You Hear How Many Full-Time Jobs a $136 Million Data Center Will Actually Create

Fit Precast, an industrial concrete company, is dropping $102 million on a new facility in Gastonia, North Carolina, creating 125 new jobs for workers throughout the area. Pharmaceutical giant Becton ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Data center growth exploded across America and into Wisconsin

The recent increase in data centers is largely driven by the massive computing power required for artificial intelligence. New AI-focused data centers are significantly larger and more ...
Tom's Guide

1 billion personal records exposed in massive new data leak — full names, addresses, phone numbers and more

Online Security 3.5 million hit in US college data breach with full names, dates of birth, SSNs, bank info and more exposed — how to see if you’re affected Online Security 22.6 million hit in massive ...
Wired

Could AI Data Centers Be Moved to Outer Space?

Data centers are being built at a frantic pace all over the world, driven by the AI boom. These facilities consume staggering amounts of electricity. By 2028, AI servers alone may use as much energy ...
The New York Times

Data Centers and Your Power Bill

New A.I. sites could drive up your power bill. We look at possible solutions. By Claire Brown Tech companies are investing billions of dollars to build energy-hungry data centers at a time when demand ...
The Washington Post

Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S.

The GW Ranch project approved on 8,000 windswept acres of West Texas will look like many of the other data centers that have sprung up across the country to support Silicon Valley’s ambitions for ...
New Scientist

Data centres could store information in glass for thousands of years

An automated system for storing large amounts of information in glass could change the future of data centres. Our world runs on data, from the internet and readouts of countless industrial sensors to ...
Forbes

Better Data Could Unlock AI’s Full Potential In Cybersecurity

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CNBC

Trump trade adviser Navarro says administration may force data center builders like Meta to 'internalize' costs

President Donald Trump's trade and manufacturing adviser Peter Navarro said on Sunday that the White House may force data center builders to absorb utility costs. Data centers powering artificial ...
Scientific American

Algorithms really do create political polarization—and this AI tool let users avoid it

People often blame social media algorithms that prioritize extreme content for increasing political polarization, but this effect has been difficult to prove. Only the platform owners have access to ...
Fox Business

Data breach exposes personal data of 25M Americans

A data breach that impacted a major government tech contractor is now believed to be significantly larger than initially thought, with more than 25 million Americans affected. Conduent, a business ...
Business Wire

Resilient Structures and CenterPoint Energy Announce Strategic Long-Term Supply Agreement to Strengthen Greater Houston Grid

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Resilient Structures (RS), a leading manufacturer of high-performance composite utility poles, today announced a long-term supply agreement with CenterPoint Energy (NYSE: CNP ...