In the first week of May, two data center developments, one in Arizona and another in Georgia, were caught taking...
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Lake Tahoe doesn’t know where its power will come from after next ski season—and it’s a major problem for the...
In the artificial intelligence age, industry leaders say the most in-demand and potentially lucrative professions might not be the roles...
The numbers coming out of Wall Street’s most influential research shop tell a story that Silicon Valley would rather not...
President Donald Trump has framed the current state of the U.S. economy as a “golden age,” and in some ways...
Unionized workers form alliance with rich tech giants on AI data centers, pushing back on opposition
Building trades unions — long fashioned as the voice of the American worker — are now intertwined with the richest...
The AI boom is built on the backs of the world’s poorest, most exploited people, UN researchers find
In arid regions such as Chile’s Salar de Atacama, mining activities account for up to 65% of total regional water...
Utility giant Duke Energy plans to spend industry record $103 billion on growth as data centers boom
Utility giant Duke Energy may not be a household name, but it sits at the epicenter of the AI data...
The hyperscalers building the infrastructure of the AI economy have a $650 billion problem hiding in plain sight—and it doesn’t...
When President Donald Trump returned to office last year, he framed his tariff policy as a bid to bring manufacturing...
Christian Weedbrook, a film school dropout turned CEO of Xanadu Quantum Technologies, was minted a billionaire in a matter of...
The new leadership of the AI power startup Fermi is feuding with its fired CEO and top shareholder over a...
For years, the resistance to artificial intelligence looked manageable. There were academics writing open letters, Hollywood writers striking over contract...
U.S. utilities plan $1.4 trillion spending spree, up 30%, for next 5 years amid AI construction boom
U.S. utilities and power generators are hiking their spending plans to record levels at the same time as consumer utility...
Big Oil is joining the data center game, with Chevron and Microsoft entering an exclusivity agreement on talks to colocate...
Bernard Looney, whose tenure as CEO of BP ended with him embattled in controversy, is entering the AI age as...
While working at a major renewable energy developer, Varun Sivaram realized that the boom in AI and data centers were...
Microsoft is taking over a data center construction project in Texas after OpenAI declined to pursue it, in a move...
Southeast Asia is racing to build the infrastructure powering the AI boom, but its hot, humid climate could be making...
Two high-profile progressive lawmakers are introducing a bill Wednesday that would pause new data centers in the United States until...
White-collar tech roles have faced waves of layoffs in recent months, as companies like Amazon, Meta and Oracle trim headcounts...
Fed Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged Wednesday that the AI-fueled data center boom is contributing to inflation, pushing back on the...