TechSpot

Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have one year to find new power as their utility pivots to data centers

A hot potato: Residents in many US states have reacted angrily as AI data centers spring up across the country, citing environmental impacts and rising utility bills. In one particularly egregious ...
Futurism

New Data Center Equivalent to Setting Off 23 Nuclear Bombs Per Day, Professor Finds

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. A ...
The New York Times

In ‘The Python Hunt,’ a Real Competition as Riveting as Fiction

The Florida Python Challenge brings out a fascinating cast of characters, all captured by the director Xander Robin’s camera. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...
InfoWorld

The best new features in Python 3.15

Highlights of Python 3.15, now available in beta, include lazy imports, faster JITs, better error messages, and smarter profiling. The first full beta of Python 3.15 ...
syracuse.com

Data centers descend on needy Upstate NY towns. Is anyone looking out for us?

Across New York, the owners of vacant industrial properties are turning to data centers. An old gun factory in the Mohawk Valley. A dormant industrial park in Genesee County. A vacant aluminum plant ...
Bisnow

Nvidia, PulteGroup Partner With Startup To Test Data Centers Attached To New Homes

A California startup is partnering with chip giant Nvidia and residential builder PulteGroup to place small data centers on homes across the U.S. San Francisco-based Span is known for its “smart” home ...
Food & Water Watch

6 Reasons Why New York Must Say “NO” to Data Centers

Data centers will raise New York utility bills and worsen climate change, no matter what Big Tech and its boosters will tell you. State leaders must take action. Data centers will raise New York ...
Mother Jones

Maine Said No to New Data Centers. Other States Are Racing to Follow.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In Maine, electricity bills have already increased by 58 percent on average over the ...
Forbes

AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data. When Shanna Johnson was winding ...
Bloomberg L.P.

PJM Targets 15 Gigawatts of New Power for Data Center Boom

PJM Interconnection LLC is seeking 15 gigawatts of new power supplies in an emergency proposal to address potential electricity shortages stemming from the boom in artificial intelligence. The ...
Science Daily

This new chip could slash data center energy waste

A new chip design from UC San Diego could make data centers far more energy-efficient by rethinking how power is converted for GPUs. By combining vibrating piezoelectric components with a clever ...
Forbes

This 23 Year-Old’s New AI Data Company Has Already Hit A $100 Million Run Rate

AfterQuery founders Carlos Georgescu, 22, and Spencer Mateega, 23, pose for a photo in San Francisco. When the Winter 2025 deadline for famed startup incubator Y Combinator approached, Spencer Mateega ...