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 Trump administration’s data center push is spurring concerns about energy prices and environmental impacts. The administration has embraced data centers, which house the computers and ...

Media personalities and online influencers who sow social division for a living, blame the rise of assassination culture on Antifa and MAGA. Meanwhile, tech CEOs gin up fears of an AI apocalypse. But ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

Data is the oil that fuels the AI gold rush; machines need it to understand the world and help us solve its most pressing problems. But the way we use, collect and store data is evolving as quickly as ...

Jobs and inflation data will be released late and with caveats, complicating the Federal Reserve’s interest rate deliberations. By Ben Casselman and Rebecca Davis O’Brien The government shutdown is ...

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We’re breaking ground on our 30th data center in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, designed to enable ambitious AI workloads. As part of our commitment to supporting the Beaver Dam community, we’re donating $15 ...

At least four major data center projects are in the works in southern Michigan. Some communities, like Salem Township, are less than thrilled about data centers and the power demands they require.

We’re investing $600 billion in American infrastructure and jobs, including industry-leading AI data centers. By building in the US, we’re not only advancing AI technology and infrastructure, but also ...