North Carolina lawmakers are floating a proposal that would require large data centers to cover electricity and infrastructure costs associated with building and operating them, while also tightening ...

Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. is a policy reporter at The Verge ...

Most people are well aware at this stage that their activity is being observed on just about every website and platform they visit. But if there is only one place you would hope might be free of ...

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David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

If you're wondering, yes, the idea has been floated...more than once. Unsurprisingly, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk publicly supports the premise, but so does Amazon and space-launch outfit Blue ...

Wisconsin is becoming a popular location for data centers due to its climate, water access, and affordable land. The majority of a data center's water footprint comes from the offsite electricity ...

Several of the Earth’s systems are changing faster than predicted as global temperatures rise, scientists say. By David Gelles Scientists who study global warming are currently wrestling with a ...

The California Resident Income Tax Return, Form 540, runs six pages long and includes more than 100 lines and boxes. This story is about just one of those boxes and the young man behind it. Sahil ...

Pokémon Go creator Niantic is using players' augmented reality data to help train delivery robots. Now rebranded as Niantic Spatial, the company has joined forces with robotic startup Coco to help its ...

A computer platform that runs on human neurons (and recently showed off said neurons’ ability to play DOOM) now wants in on the data center boom. Australia-based Cortical Labs announced today that it ...

If it feels like data breach letters are arriving more often than junk mail, you're not imagining it. A new report from the Identity Theft Resource Center says data breaches hit a record high last ...