The US federal government’s central energy information agency is planning to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use, according to a letter seen by WIRED.

Silicon Valley has been pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into building ever-larger AI data centers that require as much electricity as hundreds of thousands of US homes—but that massive ...

The booming data center industry faces growing pushback from communities and politicians. Industry executives worry that there hasn't been a coordinated response to its image problems. As states ...

OpenAI is making several updates to its Codex AI coding agent. Codex is now able to operate desktop Mac apps with its own cursor, seeing what's on the screen, clicking, and typing to complete tasks.

As Raleigh prepares to implement water restrictions on Monday amid the ongoing drought, attention is turning to how much water large data centers could use and how that demand is managed during dry ...

Alibaba and China Telecom launched a data center in China designed for AI training and inferencing. The data center is powered by Alibaba's self-developed Zhenwu AI semiconductors. Chinese firms have ...

Maine is set to pass a bill pausing new data centers until late 2027. Data centers face growing public resistance over environmental and infrastructure concerns. Maine's vote could mark the first-ever ...

Marijuana use seems to be more popular (or at least more openly talked about) than ever. Regardless of whether you’re on the gummy bandwagon, you might wonder how it really affects your brain after ...