AT&T has reached a combined $177 million settlement over two data breaches. And impacted consumers have a little over a month left to file a claim for their chunk of the money. Several lawsuits ...

California Resources Corp. is moving forward this week with a medium-size data center near Valley Acres it says will have a lighter impact on local water, power and noise levels than similar ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world's largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, which also predicts their water and ...

EU eyes minimum efficiency rules for data centres Capacity set to double by 2030, lifting power demand Sustainability label planned amid energy concerns BRUSSELS, June 3 (Reuters) - The European Union ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Inside what is, in many ways, a tiny data center that pales in comparison to modern counterparts, the University of Utah runs what it calls Cloud Lab. The lab allows researchers to ...

The data centres powering the AI boom already use more electricity than some small countries, and the International Energy Agency projects that their demand could reach 945 terawatt-hours a year – ...

Nvidia has put its name behind a fledgling effort to put mini-data centers beside people’s homes in boxes that look like HVAC units. It’s a “power” play, considering that the main bottleneck to ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

A hot potato: GitHub has announced that starting April 24, the company will begin using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve its AI models unless they opt out.

John Steinbach was shocked to receive a $281 electricity bill in January 2026—a huge spike from the roughly $100 he’d paid the previous month. “It’s just so far beyond any bill that I’ve ever had,” he ...

Leaders love AI because it makes knowledge easy to reuse: instant drafts, instant code, instant analysis. But the research shows that making knowledge easy to reuse has a hidden cost. Chengwei Liu is ...

There are many controversies surrounding the location of proposed data centers in my home state of Kentucky and other states potentially raising rates for the public (“AI and the Data Center Backlash, ...