Round Rock is getting a new data center, another step in Central Texas’ emergence as a hotspot for artificial intelligence infrastructure. In a contentious meeting Thursday, the Round Rock City ...

Water consumption by data centers and cryptomining facilities will be the focus of a new data-collection effort launched Friday by the Texas Public Utility Commission. Demand to build new data centers ...

Tech firms are floating the idea of building data centers in space and tapping into the sun's energy to meet out-of-this-world power demands in a fierce artificial intelligence race. Elon Musk's ...

In a newly filed FCC application, Musk’s SpaceX outlines plans to launch a data center constellation of up to 1 million satellites. Reading time 3 minutes Orbital data centers are the latest big tech ...

The outlook for electric grid reliability in North America is worsening, as demand may outpace supply in the years ahead, according to a key watchdog. In its annual Long-Term Reliability Assessment, ...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is asking companies to provide information about “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech” products that would “directly support investigations activities,” according to ...

Bain Capital-backed Bridge Data Centres is planning a foray into the Middle East, Australia and Japan as data-center operators worldwide race to build hyperscale infrastructure for the fast-growing ...

The Malaysian approach to AI is centred around national economic resilience and digital sovereignty. The government’s 2021 Artificial Intelligence Roadmap emphasises the importance of a national AI ...

As usage of artificial intelligence increases, the construction of several large-scale data centers in Michigan is being debated by local municipalities and residents who live nearby those sites. At ...

This coal plant in central Pennsylvania, once the largest in the state, was shuttered in 2023 after powering the region for over 50 years. Earlier this year, wrecking crews blasted the plant’s cooling ...

Reinsurer Swiss Re streams near-real-time flood maps into its catastrophe-risk services, accelerating its claims processing and disaster response. Cargill, the Minnesota-based agribusiness company, ...