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 ...

Driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, Microsoft is internally projecting that water use at its data centers will more than double by 2030 from 2020, including in places that face shortages.

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people. Credit...Ben Denzer ...

Jeremiah Fowler, a veteran security researcher, recently stumbled upon 149,404,754 unique logins and passwords, totaling about 96GB of raw data. There was no encryption… and it didn’t even have a ...

The Meta data center in Richland Parish has, since the announcement of its construction in December 2024, been rightly regarded as a major economic boon to one of the state’s poorest regions. In ...

The effort is drawing bipartisan support and is expected to come up again next year as officials grapple with the artificial intelligence boom’s side effects. States facing drought and dwindling ...

Power demand from US data centers is set to surge to 106 gigawatts by 2035, according to BloombergNEF, a 36% increase from the research provider’s previous outlook in April. The upward revision in ...

The explosive growth of data centers could threaten the stability of the electrical grid this winter, according to an industry overseer. Across North America, demand for electricity this winter is ...

Many welcome recent US AI expansion plans into the UK. However, alongside jubilation about billions in inward investment come troubling reservations about the environmental cost of the 95 new UK data ...

This guide provides instructions on how to set up and use MySQL with DBeaver. Before you start, you must create a connection in DBeaver and select MySQL. If you have not done this, please refer to our ...

Anthropic is starting to train its models on new Claude chats. If you’re using the bot and don’t want your chats used as training data, here’s how to opt out. Anthropic is prepared to repurpose ...