Voters in a small Missouri town booted four city council members who backed a $6 billion data center despite fierce local opposition. Irate residents of Festus — a city of about 14,000 roughly 35 ...

Tech billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are advocating for space data centers to scale AI. The space economy could be a $1.8 trillion opportunity by 2035, according to McKinsey and Company. Critics ...

Lt. Gov. Jon Husted speaking at Google’s New Albany data center. Credit: Nick Evans, Ohio Capital Journal.) Ohio Residents for Responsible Development can start collecting signatures to get a proposed ...

Consumer advocates call inaction ‘disgraceful,’ while Georgia Power and data center groups tout benefits they say the industry will bring Georgians. The Douglas County Google Data Center complex in ...

NEW YORK, March 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. technology industry is being pushed to shrink its power use in times of high demand, amid growing public concern that Big Tech's massive electricity needs for ...

Two U.S. senators on Thursday fired the latest salvo in an increasingly active front against data centers and their energy use. Senators Josh Hawley and Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to the U.S.

Data brokers are helping the FBI get around warrant requirements. Data brokers are helping the FBI get around warrant requirements. is a policy reporter at The Verge covering surveillance, the ...

Some families go to the beach or into the mountains together. Others prefer museums, movies, or theme parks. Carl Jackson’s clan, though, would rather be chasing invasive Burmese pythons through the ...

If it feels like data breach letters are arriving more often than junk mail, you're not imagining it. A new report from the Identity Theft Resource Center says data breaches hit a record high last ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. A ransomware group known as SafePlay said ...

Monarch Energy is nearing a deal to develop a data center in Rockford, Illinois, with a potential $12 billion investment. The project would be located on 1,100 acres south of the Chicago Rockford ...

SAGINAW TWP, MI – Saginaw Township officials could soon begin drafting an ordinance regulating data centers as communities across Michigan address the recent emergence of such facilities. The Saginaw ...