Data centers face criticism for their high water and electricity consumption, as well as noise pollution. Northwestern Pennsylvania municipalities are working to designate specific zoning districts, ...

WALTON COUNTY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - The Walton County Commission has instructed county staff to draft an outright ban of AI data centers, a step that all five commissioners voted to approve.

The growing anger over the AI industry’s obsession with building massive and resource-intensive data centers across the country is as palpable than ever. A recent survey by the Pew Research Center ...

The FBI has resumed purchasing reams of Americans’ data and location histories to aid federal investigations, the agency’s director, Kash Patel, testified to lawmakers on Wednesday. This is the first ...

As we drove through southwest Memphis, KeShaun Pearson told me to keep my window down—our destination was best tasted, not viewed. Along the way, we passed an abandoned coal plant to our right, then ...

When an OpenAI finance analyst needed to compare revenue across geographies and customer cohorts last year, it took hours of work — hunting through 70,000 datasets, writing SQL queries, verifying ...

This is a bit loaded question as if you're looking at this page, it's rendered from (X)HTML = XML. But what I am interested in (for a talk / research topic) is if people are still choosing (directly ...

There’s been a “targeted, surgical removal of data sets, or elements of data sets, that are not aligned with the administration’s priorities,” said Denice Ross at the Federation of American Scientists ...

The annual tally from the Writers Guild West shows that its members may have made slightly more money overall than during the 148-day strike year of 2023, but there's fewer jobs available. By Katie ...

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(TNS) — I’m a writing professor who sees artificial intelligence as more of an opportunity for students, rather than a threat. That sets me apart from some of my colleagues, who fear that AI is ...