The demand for data centers is growing faster than our ability to mitigate their skyrocketing economic and environmental costs Amber X. Chen | AAAS Mass Media Fellow Key takeaways: A.I. and data ...

New data centers can lead to higher electric bills and lock in aging, outdated coal plants. But a Google project in Minnesota takes a different approach: The tech giant is paying to build enough clean ...

FESTUS, Mo. — Residents in Festus recently scraped together $150 to find out what was happening to their city. What they uncovered showed key decisions were already underway before the public was ever ...

Earlier this month, when U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta issued penalties against Google for monopolizing the search engine market, he stopped short of the harshest ones — like forcing the breakup of ...

So many data center requests have flooded into Texas that the demand is impossible to meet, energy experts say. Speculative projects are clogging the pipeline to connect to the state's electric grid, ...

The Department of Homeland Security's mandate to carry out domestic surveillance has been a concern for privacy advocates since the organization was first created in the wake of the September 11 ...

Electricity prices are surging, voters are growing angry, and the artificial intelligence industry's data centers are increasingly a target for blame with U.S. mid-term elections on the horizon.

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Randy Bean is a noted Senior Advisor, Author, Speaker, Founder, & CEO. How does a venerable American brand known for creating the ...

Documents show that one of Google’s new data centers would be powered by a natural gas plant that emits millions of tons of emissions each year—an increasingly common trend in the industry. A new data ...