How misreading Google Trends is fuelling Bondi attack conspiracy theories

Google Trends results for attackers’ names from before an attack are increasingly (and incorrectly) being used as evidence of ...
Business Insider

The spike in data centers is one of the main contributors to electricity demand and blackout risks this winter

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ConsumerAffairs

How to check if your data was exposed and what to do next

AT&T has reached a proposed $177 million class-action settlement to resolve lawsuits stemming from two major data-breach incidents disclosed in 2024. The deadline for filing claims is December 18. Are ...
CNN

Data centers are spiking electricity costs in Maryland. It’s the ‘tip of the iceberg,’ one expert warns

Nike Carstarphen’s electricity bill is rising, even when she’s using less power. The Baltimore resident’s electricity rate jumped 20% from August to September, even though she had cut her usage 40%, ...
POWER Magazine

POWER Interview: CyrusOne Expert on How AI Is Reshaping the Data Center–Utility Relationship

CyrusOne’s Jim Roche details how AI-driven workloads, high-density racks, and liquid cooling are transforming the data center–utility relationship. Only a decade ago, few in the power sector could ...
Wall Street Journal

What Happened When Small-Town America Became Data Center, U.S.A.

UMATILLA, ORE.—Yesenia Leon-Tejeda, like many people on the frontier of America’s tech boom, is basking in newfound prosperity. Her hometown in northeast Oregon was not long ago known for a former ...
Wall Street Journal

Related to Build More-Than-$7 Billion Data Center for Oracle, OpenAI’s Stargate

Investors have grown more concerned over the run-up in tech stocks and valuations of private AI companies, stoking fears of a bubble. WSJ’s Hannah Erin Lang uses three charts to explain what’s behind ...
The Business Journals

West Palm Beach company to go public in $1 billion deal to power data center boom

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The business will use clean ...
The New Yorker

Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid

Drive in almost any direction from almost any American city, and soon enough you’ll arrive at a data center—a giant white box rising from graded earth, flanked by generators and fenced like a prison ...
PBS

What happens when no one trusts a country’s economic data

The inflation report was delayed due to the government shutdown and the White House said there will likely be no report next month. But even before the shutdown, experts were sounding the alarm after ...
Pew Research Center

What we know about energy use at U.S. data centers amid the AI boom

Artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years, with tech companies investing billions of dollars in data centers to help train and run AI models. The expansion of data centers has ...