COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Bipartisan Ohio lawmakers are reviving an effort to regulate pricing algorithms, software that often uses artificial intelligence to adjust prices, rent and wages in order to ...

What Are the Pros and Cons of Data Centers? Your email has been sent The AI data center boom is reshaping economies while straining power grids, water supplies, and communities. Here’s the real cost ...

The windowless buildings rising across North Carolina look more like warehouses than engines of climate change. They have no smokestacks and no obvious emissions. But inside, thousands of servers run ...

AI data centers are driving a surge in new gas projects. AI data centers are driving a surge in new gas projects. is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a ...

The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of 13 governors announced an agreement urging the PJM Interconnection — the largest electric grid operator in the U.S. — to “…expand the energy supply, ...

QINGDAO, China, Jan. 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Maase Inc. (NASDAQ: MAAS) (“MAAS” or the “Company”) today announced that it has entered into a transaction agreement to acquire 100% of the equity ...

Jan 13 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab on Tuesday unveiled an initiative to curb water usage at its U.S. data centers and limit the impact on the general population from any potential ...

On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a new initiative called “Community-First AI Infrastructure” that commits the company to paying full electricity costs for its data centers and refusing to seek local ...

A cozy, neutral sameness defines our era of interior design. Velvet sofas. Bouclé armchairs. All-white living rooms. Beds layered with fluffy faux-fur blankets. Calming sage green kitchen cabinets.

Lawmakers are investigating whether AI companies are offloading massive energy infrastructure costs onto residential utility customers. Data centers are responsible for the majority of projected ...