Round Rock is getting a new data center, another step in Central Texas’ emergence as a hotspot for artificial intelligence infrastructure. In a contentious meeting Thursday, the Round Rock City ...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is asking companies to provide information about “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech” products that would “directly support investigations activities,” according to ...

Update: New information added to the end of the story. The latest incarnation of the notorious BreachForums hacking forum has suffered a data breach, with its user database table leaked online.

As usage of artificial intelligence increases, the construction of several large-scale data centers in Michigan is being debated by local municipalities and residents who live nearby those sites. At ...

This coal plant in central Pennsylvania, once the largest in the state, was shuttered in 2023 after powering the region for over 50 years. Earlier this year, wrecking crews blasted the plant’s cooling ...

The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database contains selected macroeconomic data series from the statistical appendix of the World Economic Outlook report, which presents the IMF staff's analysis and ...

DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer. By Nicholas Nehamas ...

AI Data Centers’ Soaring Energy Use: Who Pays for Higher Utilities Costs? Your email has been sent The rising number of AI data centers in the US could drive utility costs higher and has put parts of ...

In late July, the Trump administration released its long-awaited AI Action Plan, which includes steps to cut environmental requirements and streamline permitting policies to make it easier to build ...

Oracle has unveiled its latest database offering it claims will enhance agentic AI deployments and help with data sovereignty demands. The Oracle Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale ...

Databases will soon be capable of monitoring their own health, identifying bottlenecks, adjusting configurations, and even rerouting traffic in real time. Generative AI has already had a profound ...

The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies. Alex Karp, a ...