Data center deep-dive: Sorting fact from fiction Posted: March 18, 2026 | Last updated: March 18, 2026 Data centers are getting a lot of backlash across the country, most recently in Spartanburg ...

Editor's Note: This story has been updated to clarify the project's acreage, building size, water usage estimates, and permitting status, and to include comments from Ryan Hughes, managing partner at ...

Water consumption by data centers and cryptomining facilities will be the focus of a new data-collection effort launched Friday by the Texas Public Utility Commission. Demand to build new data centers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Shutterstock / Soho A Studio Credit: Shutterstock / Soho A Studio It's hard to ever feel fully prepared for a winter ...

San Marcos residents and city officials found themselves at another crossroads Tuesday night as a massive data center proposal resurfaced. The nearly 200-acre project off Francis Harris Lane has ...

AI data centers require incredible amounts of energy to run. NPR's Planet Money investigates how that demand for power might affect your electric bills. Tech companies invested hundreds of billions of ...

Google's latest addition to its NotebookLM artificial intelligence research platform is a feature called Data Tables. The tool can collect and synthesize information across multiple sources into a ...

Google's data center footprint in the Lone Star State is growing yet again after the tech giant registered its latest nearly $1 billion project in North Texas. Google registered the $880 million ...

BRUSSELS, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Meta's (META.O), opens new tab proposal to use less personal data for targeted advertising in its pay-or-consent model that will be rolled out next month won the approval ...

The effort is drawing bipartisan support and is expected to come up again next year as officials grapple with the artificial intelligence boom’s side effects. States facing drought and dwindling ...

The explosive growth of data centers could threaten the stability of the electrical grid this winter, according to an industry overseer. Across North America, demand for electricity this winter is ...