The Texas Tribune

Texans are demanding their local governments push pause on data centers. Can they?

Share your feedback and you could win $50. Never miss a story with The Brief, our free newsletter. Keep tabs on Texas politics and policy with our morning newsletter. The Texas Tribune Independent ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Savannah Guthrie Acknowledges “Message” From Suspected Kidnappers of Mother Nancy Guthrie in New Video, Says “We Will Pay” to Bring Her Home

"We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her," the 'Today' host said in a new video message on Instagram Saturday. By McKinley Franklin Savannah Guthrie has released a ...
Fox Business

Chevron CEO details strategy to shield consumers from soaring AI power costs

Chevron CEO Mike Wirth detailed the company’s strategy to harness U.S. natural resources to meet soaring artificial intelligence power demand — without passing the cost along to consumers. "As data ...
Wired

Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom

Data centers have caused the demand for gas-fired power in the US to explode over the past two years, according to new research released Wednesday. More than a third of this new demand, the research ...
USA Today

No, AI isn't inevitable. We should stop it while we can. | Opinion

"AI is here to stay,” according to conventional wisdom. From news headlines to academic papers, Americans are led to believe that the rise of artificial intelligence is inevitable, and that we all ...
CBS News

At town hall on proposed data center in South Jersey, residents voice concerns: "We don't know this guy"

More than 100 residents packed the Landis Theater in Vineland, New Jersey, Wednesday night for a town hall hosted by DataOne, as the company behind a proposed data center sought to reassure the ...
Grist

Can you build data centers in a desert without draining the water supply? Utah is finding out.

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and The Salt Lake Tribune, a nonprofit newsroom in Utah. In late September, Governor Spencer Cox of Utah stood on the shores of the ...
MIT Technology Review

Data centers are amazing. Everyone hates them.

In these politically divisive times, there’s one thing we all agree on—we don’t want a giant data center in our backyard. Behold, the hyperscale data center! Massive structures, with thousands of ...
Los Angeles Times

New California tool can stop brokers from selling your personal online data. Here’s how

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California launches DROP, an online platform enabling residents to request all registered data brokers delete ...
CNBC

From data center spas to servers in space: How the energy crunch is reshaping cloud computing

As more AI workloads are scaled into energy-intensive data centers, the pressure on power supply chains will intensify. Lenovo's Simone Larsson told CNBC there's going to be a "tipping point" where ...
The New Yorker

Americans Won’t Ban Kids from Social Media. What Can We Do Instead?

You’re reading Fault Lines, Jay Caspian Kang’s weekly column on politics and the media. Let’s say, for the sake of the following discussion, that we agree on the following: Teen-agers have First ...
MLive

Michigan’s largest AI data center can move ahead after DTE wins key approval

LANSING, MI - Michigan’s first “hyperscale” data center has a path to power. On Thursday, Dec. 18, state regulators cleared the way for a massive artificial intelligence server warehouse for ChatGPT ...