China-based artificial intelligence (AI) companies are conducting systematic extraction of proprietary functionalities and capabilities of U.S. AI companies’ models through industrial-scale knowledge ...

For households, solar turns electricity from a background expense into something visible and interactive. Instead of waiting for a monthly utility bill, homeowners can see when their panels are ...

Americans could soon feel the artificial intelligence boom in an unavoidable place — their monthly electric bills. Research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas finds that the rapid growth of AI ...

An Amazon-owned site in Pecos County, Texas, received a permit to release up to 33 million tons of CO2. An Amazon-owned site in Pecos County, Texas, received a permit to release up to 33 million tons ...

The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments. By Hiroko Tabuchi Amazon is investing in a ...

Nowhere is the US data center boom bigger than in Texas. But less than a year after declaring Texas the “epicenter of AI development,” Governor Greg Abbott has declared a moratorium on all new power ...

Which UV shoe sanitizer is best? The moist bacteria-and-fungus-breeding environment created within shoes is something most of us try to ignore. Unfortunately, the resulting odor — not to mention ...

As the summer continues to heat up, so are the discussions about the Texas power grid and the impact of data centers. Just last week, the grid set a new all-time demand record: more than 91,000 ...

ASHBURN, Va. (7News) — A power issue in Ashburn, Virginia, last week is raising concerns about whether data centers could hurt the reliability of the power grid not just by using too much energy, but ...

The Trump administration announced Monday that it is exempting power plants that only serve data centers and do not connect to the broader grid from pollution limits that seek to prevent acid rain.

A power line went down outside of Washington, DC, this week. Normally, the grid would only need a few seconds to recover from such an event. But this one took more than 10 minutes because data centers ...

Just before 8 a.m. Wednesday, electricity flickered on and off for about 10 minutes. An engineer’s data says it happened throughout the Eastern half of the U.S., from Chicago, to Boston and Miami. He ...