Editor's Note: This story has been updated to clarify the project's acreage, building size, water usage estimates, and permitting status, and to include comments from Ryan Hughes, managing partner at ...

The takeaway: Microsoft and other data center operators are racing to develop new methods for storing massive amounts of data on permanent media. Redmond is pursuing a technology based on glass and ...

The Eclipse Foundation has released the final version of GlassFish 8, an update of its enterprise Java application server. The new release serves as a compatible implementation of the Jakarta EE 11 ...

A $1.5 billion data center that could reshape nearly 200 acres of Central Texas landed back at City Hall, and the stakes had never been higher. After more than eight hours of emotional testimony, ...

NextEra Energy is a leader in developing power generation capacity. It's a key power supplier to leading tech companies, including Alphabet and Meta Platforms. It aims to develop data center campuses ...

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The Trump White House wants tech companies to publicly commit to ensuring that their data centers won’t raise electricity prices, stress local water supplies, or complicate grid reliability, Politico ...

The rise of data centers supporting the AI boom is expected to increase energy demand by 2 to 3 percent annually in the Great Lakes region, stressing local grids and raising consumer costs. The ...

The first time that University of Oxford astronomer Lyla Jung saw the cosmic configuration on her monitor, she almost didn’t believe it was real. But it was—and Jung and her colleagues went on to ...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) improperly disclosed confidential tax data of thousands of people to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as part of the Trump administration’s push to crack ...

Sens. Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal on Wednesday introduced the first bipartisan bill in Congress aimed at preventing data center power usage from spiking consumers’ electric bills. The ...

Washington correspondent, CBS News 24/7 and CBS Stations Natalie Brand is a Washington correspondent covering the White House and Capitol Hill for CBS News 24/7 and CBS Stations. Greg Pirio bought his ...