As the mayor pushes forward on eminent domain proceedings, the purchase increases the stakes in one of the city's biggest ...

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from creating a database of millions of Americans’ private information — including Social Security numbers and citizenship status — saying the ...

Could AI be hooked directly to your house? Premier tech company, Nvidia, is teaming up with a start-up to put artificial intelligence data centers into personal homes and businesses. California-based ...

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. As ...

Cutting corners: American AI companies are racing to build as many data centers as they can, but limits in domestic manufacturing and energy supply are slowing progress. As a result, only about half ...

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming ...

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 ...

As we drove through southwest Memphis, KeShaun Pearson told me to keep my window down—our destination was best tasted, not viewed. Along the way, we passed an abandoned coal plant to our right, then ...

Big technology companies are facing pushback over their data centers, which have been blamed for rising energy prices in the U.S. These so-called hyperscalers have pledged to bear rising energy costs ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years, with tech companies investing billions of dollars in data centers to help train and run AI models. The expansion of data centers has ...

Principal Platform Engineer with over 15 years of experience building and scaling backend systems and infrastructure. Strings are all over databases, from emails and usernames to messages, logs, and ...