The US federal government’s central energy information agency is planning to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use, according to a letter seen by WIRED.

One aspect of the "AI revolution" keeping security professionals up at night is the continued prevalence of prompt injection attacks that enable exfiltration of sensitive data — even against dominant ...

The Maine legislature passed the first state ban in the nation on the development of large data centers on Tuesday. The temporary measure, which lasts for 1.5 years, restricts the construction of new ...

In a cascading illustration of unintended consequences, threat actors compromised an AI tool vendor, then used that access this past weekend to compromise software security vendor Vercel, and possibly ...

Maine is on the verge of becoming the first state in the nation to slam the brakes on energy-hungry AI data centers, as lawmakers push back against tech giants over fears of higher power bills, ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Cable and internet service provider Comcast reached a $117.5 million settlement after a major data breach exposed customers’ personal information in October 2023. The settlement is a ...

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What really happens after you hit enter on that AI prompt? WSJ’s Joanna Stern heads inside a data center to trace the journey and then grills up some steaks to show just how much energy it takes to ...

After much debate, Yorkville may be pumping the brakes on data center projects moving forward. Recently, a developer withdrew a request to rezone a property for a potential data center campus due to a ...

Maine lawmaker Melanie Sachs, a Democrat, thought her state was one of the few places in the nation where data centers weren’t interested in setting up shop. The northeastern-most state in the US — ...

IREN has more than 4.5 gigawatts of projects in its pipeline and buys its own Nvidia chips, which allows it to make more lucrative deals with clients. Cipher Digital operates using a low-risk model ...

The Dow industrials ended a strong week on a down note after inflation came in at its highest level in nearly two years. The March CPI report showed prices rose 0.9% from a month earlier and 3.3% from ...