Tech companies are building data centers as quickly as possible to run AI. These facilities are controviersial because they use copious amounts of electricity and might tax an electrical grid that in ...

As Ohio's data center boom continues, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is considering a permit to allow new data centers without access to central sewerage systems to dispose of water used to ...

The amount of ERCOT‘s large load interconnection requests ballooned to more than 230 gigawatts this year, a massive increase from the 63 gigawatts reported in December 2024. The agency, which operates ...

Texas' power grid is getting slammed with more big requests than ever, and most of them are coming from the booming world of artificial intelligence. ERCOT reported this week that large load ...

COWETA COUNTY, Ga. — Massive data centers proposed for metro Atlanta expect to use millions of gallons of water per day. Some of those data centers are planning to use more water than entire Georgia ...

The UK’s National Grid Plc said requests to link up to the network are now dominated by data centers as tech firms rush to add vast quantities of new processing power. Grid-connection requests are ...

LOS ANGELES — The Department of Justice is preparing to send federal election observers to California and New Jersey next month, targeting two Democratic states holding off-year elections following ...

The huge demand for energy to power data centers will be a key focus for antitrust regulators in the future, a former top official at the U.S. Justice Department’s trustbusting division said.

Update 10/17/25: Microsoft fixes the bug using a KIR (Known Issue Rollback) update. More information added to end of story. Microsoft's October Windows 11 updates have broken the "localhost" ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have tracked data centers’ growing water footprint in California. He ...

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills. The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern ...