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.

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 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 ...

A massive data center proposed in Central Texas is moving forward after a lawsuit filed against it was dismissed in court this week. The City of Taylor's proposed Blueprint Data Center outlines an ...

Sam Altman’s OpenAI, the tech company behind ChatGPT, is planning its next Stargate data centers in Texas, anchoring a new wave of sites the company unveiled last week while celebrating the opening of ...

An analysis suggests two Wisconsin data centers could use more energy than all the state's homes combined. The estimate assumes constant power demand, so actual usage may be lower. Three other ...

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 ...

Google has confirmed that some customers’ information has been stolen in a recent breach of one of its databases. In a blog post late on Tuesday, Google Threat Intelligence Group said one of its ...

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 ...

In the race to develop artificial intelligence, tech giants are building data centers that guzzle up water. That has led to problems for people who live nearby. In the race to develop artificial ...

After two and a half years we have enough data to form a clearer picture about who is using AI, what they are using it for, what they think about it, and what it means for learning. What do students ...