Microsoft said that consumers won't pay more when the software maker sets up data centers and committed to replenish more water than it uses. Utility prices have climbed across the U.S. as tech ...

Lawmakers are investigating whether AI companies are offloading massive energy infrastructure costs onto residential utility customers. Data centers are responsible for the majority of projected ...

MADISON – A new Republican legislative proposal seeks to shield Wisconsinites from utility bill increases while allowing the state to reap economic benefits of data centers, according to a memo from ...

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Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that prevents some users from opening Excel email attachments in the new Outlook client. According to a service alert (EX1189359) seen by BleepingComputer ...

Indiana's for-profit monopoly utilities often spread misleading claims that data centers will lower the cost of electricity for everyone else. Data center companies repeat them. Local officials and ...

Microsoft announced new agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. They can help to shrink the gap between ideation and production. Other Copilot updates include an expanded Voice mode. In the era of AI ...

Westerville residents overwhelmingly rejected a citizen-initiated charter amendment that would have forced the city to offer analog utility meters over smart meters. Some residents had made claims ...

Amazon.com Inc. alleges that a Berkshire Hathaway Inc.-owned utility in Oregon is failing to provide sufficient power for four new data center facilities, highlighting the strain rapid expansion of ...

Anthropic is making its most aggressive push yet into the trillion-dollar financial services industry, unveiling a suite of tools that embed its Claude AI assistant directly into Microsoft Excel and ...

The rapid rollout of power-hungry AI data centers could be straining the US energy grid and causing utility bills to spike – and prices could get worse in the coming months, according to economists.