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.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is pushing Minnesota to share its voter rolls and data on Medicaid and food stamp recipients with the federal government, a move Minnesota’s top elections official ...

MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (KABC) -- Neighbors in Monterey Park protested on Wednesday over a proposed data center in their community. People are worried about the air quality and health impacts that the ...

The Trump administration and a group of bipartisan governors are trying to pressure the nation’s largest regional electric grid operator to bring down electric prices, especially in the wake of heavy ...

Across the country, angry neighbors are storming city halls worried about rising electricity rates, disappearing farmland and a growing list of fears focused on warehouse-sized data centers.

Anyone who has to price/value a stock or assess a project at a firm has to make estimates in the face of contradictions, both in viewpoints and in numbers. Investors and businesses, when faced with ...

Tech companies are building data centers as quickly as possible to run AI. These facilities are controviersial because they use copious amounts of electricity and might tax an electrical grid that in ...

CLAREMORE, Okla. — Some people in Claremore say they’re frustrated and upset over a proposed data center planned for the city’s industrial park, arguing the project moved forward without enough ...

Power-hungry data centers risk pushing parts of the U.S. power grid toward failure. Some technology companies are fighting a potential solution: disconnecting the data centers from the grid when ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — Privacy concerns and federal immigration enforcement led a California lawmaker to unveil legislation Tuesday intended to curb the sale of ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Taylor Soper on Jan 5, 2026 at 2:28 ...

The Trump administration has spent months on a campaign to collect nonpublic voter data from nearly every state, facing pushback from states and concerns from privacy advocates. President Donald Trump ...