There's a growing backlash against the construction of local data centers, which consume massive amounts of electricity for compute and water for cooling in order to power artificial intelligence.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland General Electric has received a green light from regulators to begin charging data centers higher rates, with the goal of making sure heavy power users are shouldering the ...

Artificial Intelligence holds the promise to improve life on the planet almost beyond description, such as developing new cancer therapies, but breakneck development of the data centers that run AI ...

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U.S. utility companies are planning to invest $1.4 trillion over the next five years to update the nation's ailing power grid as the data center boom intensifies the need for electricity. That's ...

ROUND ROCK — The size of ERCOT’s large load interconnection requests — the majority of which are data centers wanting to connect to the grid — soared by nearly 150 gigawatts to 410 gigawatts in just ...

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 ...

Hobart’s No Data Center group received another setback on Wednesday from city officials. The Hobart Board of Public Works and Safety unanimously affirmed a fill permit request approved by the Hobart ...

A broad majority of Americans have heard about data centers – the often-sprawling computing facilities that are popping up nationwide. But the public has mixed opinions about data centers’ impact in ...

Google is upgrading Gemini in Google Sheets, and it can now help build and edit entire spreadsheets and automatically fill in missing data. In addition, Sheets is getting a new feature that helps ...

I had an interesting conversation with my son Tristan the other day. Because he’s so engrossed in his PhD research in machine learning at Simon Fraser University, I often try to steer our discussions ...