An insider's look at Florida’s war on invaders: the giant snakes, egg-eating predators and parasites spreading through the ...

For months, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro promised a plan to blunt fast-rising energy costs in the state by pushing power-hungry AI data centers to pay their own way. Now his office has formally ...

Tech companies could be raking in more than $1 million a pop from every American’s online data over the years — with AI firms specifically reaping potentially millions more, according to a shocking ...

The hysteria around artificial intelligence and data centers is growing, but are the public’s worst fears warranted? In this episode of “Make It Make Sense,” James Hohmann, Jason Willick and Dominic ...

Researchers studying data center impacts in Phoenix, Arizona, found that they can raise nearby air temperatures by up to 4 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius). Reading time 3 minutes As data ...

With the news that Seattle was the proposed location for five large (“hyperscale”) data centers, we were presented with an urgent question: Under what conditions, if any, would this be an acceptable ...

Man accused of killing transgender UW student found incompetent to stand trial The man accused of killing a transgender University of Washington student has been ordered to spend up to 90 days at ...

If Python developers have one consistent gripe about their beloved language, it tends to be this: Why is it so hard to take a Python program and deploy it as a standalone artifact, the way C, C++, ...

Many organizations have formal data governance programs in place, yet they struggle to translate policy into business impact. That’s often because data governance is still viewed as a back-office ...

Data centers have been on the receiving end of increasing public scrutiny, with moratoriums and local protests calling attention to water shortages, higher electricity prices, and deteriorating air ...

Demand response measures — which are popping up in utility contracts and state legislation — require data centers to use less power when the grid is stressed. Rising electricity prices are prompting ...

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 ...