Starting December 16, 2025, Meta will begin adding AI chats to the behavioral data it gathers to further personalize its experiences and ad targeting. This move blurs the line between private ...

Founded by former OpenAI staff members and funded by Amazon and Google, Anthropic has raised the stakes in the GPT wars. Anthropic's Claude Desktop app often outshines its ChatGPT rival in various ...

Electrical panel company SPAN has launched XFRA, a “distributed data center” product that uses underutilized electrical capacity in homes and commercial spaces to power compute. According to XFRA’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

5a: Introduction to Panel Data This video explains how to work with panel data. We discuss the benefits of using panel data, including Granger causality and the assessment of policy changes. We ...

A new state report warns that the boom in data centers and other “large-load” customers in Arizona poses a challenge to grid reliability and electric rates. The Governor’s Office of Resiliency’s ...

SCRANTON, Pa. — Panel members at the University of Scranton are discussing the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence and data centers. Community members gathered at "The High Cost of AI" ...

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming ...

A hot potato: GitHub has announced that starting April 24, the company will begin using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve its AI models unless they opt out.

Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually ...