Reliable flow data forms the foundation of every meaningful water resource study”— Joel Chaky BATON ROUGE, LA, UNITED ...

Water consumption by data centers and cryptomining facilities will be the focus of a new data-collection effort launched Friday by the Texas Public Utility Commission. Demand to build new data centers ...

In August 2025 an analyst at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report broke down the proposed Texas and California redistricting maps for the 2026 midterm elections. Illustration: Ryan Trefes The Supreme ...

Tech companies are building data centers as quickly as possible to run AI. These facilities are controviersial because they use copious amounts of electricity and might tax an electrical grid that in ...

Organizations have a wealth of unstructured data that most AI models can’t yet read. Preparing and contextualizing this data is essential for moving from AI experiments to measurable results. In ...

The big picture: Nonprofit research institute Epoch AI is building one of the most detailed public records of America's data center boom. Using open-source intelligence ranging from high-resolution ...

A divided Frederick County Council voted on Tuesday to adopt a 2,615-acre data center overlay map near Adamstown. The map will govern where data centers can be built. The map, known as a Critical ...

The effort is drawing bipartisan support and is expected to come up again next year as officials grapple with the artificial intelligence boom’s side effects. States facing drought and dwindling ...

Dominion Energy says its upcoming $11-a-month rate hike is driven by grid upgrades and inflation — not Virginia’s rapidly growing data-center industry. Critics note that Virginia hosts one of the ...

Africa’s official maps are stuck in the past, often either outdated, incomplete—or both. But governments don’t have the budgets to fix them, making it difficult to complete projects as complex as ...

The explosive growth of data centers could threaten the stability of the electrical grid this winter, according to an industry overseer. Across North America, demand for electricity this winter is ...

SAN ANTONIO – District 6 council member Ric Galvan filed the city’s first policy proposal request to examine the exponential growth of data centers in San Antonio. Data centers, which house the ...