People really don’t like AI data centers. Politicians are running against them. A recent Gallup poll showed 71% of Americans oppose them. Several counties and states have proposed or passed laws to ...

A power auction conducted by a giant grid operator is expected to add $6.3 billion in additional charges to consumers and businesses because of electricity needs of data centers. By Ivan Penn See more ...

On Tuesday, Meta launched “Muse Image,” a new AI image-generation feature that allows users to create original images, edit existing photos, and even generate custom ads directly within its apps. But ...

Building a plant to power the data center is intended to ensure the project won’t strain the local grid and hike electricity costs for nearby residents, as has happened in other areas with AI data ...

WASHINGTON — Artificial intelligence company Anthropic will study use of orbital data centers being developed by SpaceX. The two companies announced agreements May 6 giving Anthropic, developer of a ...

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 ...

CINCINNATI—Late at night, or when her 18-month-old daughter is napping, Jessica Sharp logs onto Chat GPT and asks it to help her in her fight to stop a data center from being built just steps away ...

You’ve likely already felt the digital sting of “surveillance pricing.” It might look like an airline advertising a specific fare bundle because a customer’s loyalty-program data suggests they’re ...

A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...

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 ...