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 ...

The White House wants federal energy regulators to act on data centers. They’re gearing up to take a big swing. Over the coming weeks, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will hammer out the ...

Taxes are due Wednesday and millions of Americans are racing to file before the deadline. More than 90% of taxpayers are expected to file electronically, according to the Tax Policy Center, while the ...

Amid growing rumors that construction of an AI data center is about to begin, a Gloucester County town is making it clear that no data center is planned within its borders now — or perhaps ever.

The City Council in Aurora, Illinois, is likely to lay down the hammer on data centers. The western suburb of Chicago put a moratorium on new data center projects six months ago, and the moratorium ...

JOLIET, Ill. (WGN) — The most anticipated Joliet City Council (JCC) meeting of 2026 is set to take place this evening, with a proposed data center sitting atop the agenda. A JCC meeting where a final ...

YORKVILLE, Ill. (WLS) -- A push to turn a quiet suburb into a technology hub is getting some negative buzz from people who live there. There are several projects at various stages of approval under ...

Roughly one in five student interactions with generative artificial intelligence on school technology involved cheating, self-harm, bullying, and other problematic behaviors, according to data ...

Early last year, a cluster of data centers in Virginia suddenly dropped off the power grid, threatening the stability of the already vulnerable system. The roughly 40 data centers, which had been ...

The British rock band Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a promotional video for Immigration and Customs Enforcement that uses one of their songs. Subscribe to read this ...

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...