Throughout the United States, data centers are popping up like weeds, devouring water and electricity to fuel the unprecedented demand for AI training and inference. At the same time, water levels in ...

A simple story has taken hold in American politics: Big Tech is consuming vast amounts of electricity to power artificial intelligence, and ordinary households are paying the price. It's a tidy ...

Three people were arrested at a City of Port Washington meeting Dec. 2 where protesters spoke out against a $15 billion artificial intelligence data center campus for tech giants OpenAI and Oracle.

Mr. Furman, a contributing Opinion writer, was the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017. Economic data never tells a perfectly clear story, but lately the ...

A large data center project was approved in Lyon Township, causing concern among local residents. Residents worry about noise pollution, effects on private wells, and potential decreases in property ...

As a country, we are spending more to get data centers up and running than we spent to build the entire interstate highway system. (Yes, that's inflation-adjusted.) With tech companies spending ...

Revealing data’s true price can turn passive users into active suppliers who demand fair value Data is the fuel for the artificial intelligence algorithms that have lifted stock markets to historic ...

When you're out doing your last-minute holiday shopping, you may want to pick up some Powerball tickets. Monday's, December 22 Powerball drawing is now at $1.6 billion and is nearing the record ...

President Donald Trump’s approval rating was stagnant in one poll, improved in another and declined slightly in a third, in new polls that overlapped with his administration’s stunning capture of ...

With over a decade of experience reporting on consumer technology, James covers mobile phones, apps, operating systems, wearables, AI, and more.