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WASHINGTON — In a ruling applying individual constitutional protections to new technology, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that sweeping use of cellphone location data requires a warrant. Subscribe ...

Extreme heat and severe weather is putting already hot AI data centers under pressure. Severe weather has become the leading cause of loss in Zurich's U.S. data center builders' risk portfolio. Data ...

A study published in Nature Physics provides new molecular-level evidence from simulations that liquid water is not a single uniform substance, but a constantly shifting mixture of two distinct ...

A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s providing federal data to states to check and purge their voter rolls violated several laws prohibiting the disclosure. By Zach Montague Reporting ...

Nvidia just announced a warm-water cooling system that it says can dramatically reduce the amount of water a data center uses — eliminating “pretty much all water usage” inside the data center, ...

Colorado is in the midst of a record-setting hot, dry season. Governor Jared Polis declared a statewide drought emergency on June 4, over two months after Denver Water declared a Stage 1 drought for ...

Amazon, a heavy investor in AI, has pioneered a technology it says will make its data centers both more resilient and more power efficient. A 2026 report by Wired shared that Amazon claims the new ...

Amazon said its global data-center operations withdrew about 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025, as data center companies around the world face growing scrutiny over the environmental impact of ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — If you haven’t seen it here, you may have seen it online. Data centers can use a tremendous amount of power, create loud noises, and drain a local water supply. So why are ...

The debate over data centers being built in Oklahoma will descend on at least two local meetings this week in Edmond and Luther. These town meetings are the latest battlegrounds over the rush to build ...

Just when you thought the AI data center boom couldn’t get any crazier, Meta has gone and built data centers in tents. The strategy appears to borrow in equal parts from Tesla and xAI. In a bid to cut ...