Every time someone orders food online, checks exam results, or streams a video, new data is created and saved. Behind these activities are large databases that store millions of records. These ...

Texas' data center revolution made a significant step forward this week as a facility dubbed "the largest power project in the country" has officially been permitted in West Texas. The 7.65 gigawatt ...

In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2025, Justin Chang, Alison Willmore, and Bilge Ebiri—about the year in cinema. Ahoy there, fellow cineteests, How ...

On most demographic measures, Seattle usually ranks alongside its peer cities — places like San Francisco, Portland, Washington, D.C., and so on. But here’s a ranking where Seattle finds itself in ...

An environmental group is suing the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin to force greater transparency in the development of Meta's new data center in Beaver Dam. Meta is the parent company of ...

Saudi Arabia is looking to capitalize on the push for sovereign AI and data by becoming a data center host. It plans to establish data embassies, meaning the site would operate under the laws of the ...

Everyone is worried about AI’s growing impact on the environment. That’s warranted, but the reality is that watching Netflix for an hour creates 500 times more CO₂ than sending two text prompts to ...

SEOUL, Nov 18 (Reuters) - South Korea has agreed to work with the United Arab Emirates on the U.S.-backed Stargate project to build a massive new artificial intelligence data campus in the Gulf ...

Astex Pharmaceuticals, Bristol Myers Squibb and Takeda have agreed to pool data to support work on an artificial intelligence model, joining AbbVie and Johnson & Johnson on the starry list of ...

Working with the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and the cloud company Oracle, the A.I. start-up will spend $400 billion over the next five years. By Cade Metz Reporting from Abilene, Texas. A day ...

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Two data centers in San Antonio have used 463 million gallons of water in the past two years. The Alamo City facilities, owned by Microsoft and the Army Corps, have drained water from the surrounding ...