Companies know how to build data centers that won’t alienate communities. But their desire to build these AI-processing plants faster than ever has resulted in sprawling, polluting, noisy, thirsty ...

You spent three hours debugging a broken ETL script, your data is sitting in five different places in five different formats, and the stakeholder meeting is tomorrow morning. If you've ever stared at ...

Loudoun County, Va., hosts more than 250 data centers that bring in huge tax revenues. But some officials and residents worry the county has become too dependent on that cash. Loudoun County, Va., ...

A $15 million aquatic center with a six-lane pool, waterslides and a lazy river opened in Quincy, Washington, a few weeks ago. It’s part of the public parks splurge in the city, which will culminate ...

Data centers are increasingly popping up next to American homes, and they're changing neighborhoods in the process. The number of large data centers over 50 megawatts has increased sevenfold from 2018 ...

The road to the giant project was paved with secret meetings and an ever-expanding building plan. By Eli Tan Reporting from Richland Parish, La. Along the Mississippi Delta in the northeast corner of ...

A power line went down outside of Washington, DC, this week. Normally, the grid would only need a few seconds to recover from such an event. But this one took more than 10 minutes because data centers ...

Just before 8 a.m. Wednesday, electricity flickered on and off for about 10 minutes. An engineer’s data says it happened throughout the Eastern half of the U.S., from Chicago, to Boston and Miami. He ...

As data centers spark local resistance movements across the state and figure prominently on the campaign trail this year, developers remain keen on Michigan. The proposals for large warehouses full of ...

Consider this a belated PSA: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings is allowing the company to store more of your data, including media such as “images, files, and audio and video recordings,” ...

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