Tucker officials scrambling for data center info

DAVIS — Officials in Tucker County believe that Fundamental Data’s proposed 500-acre natural gas power plant just outside of the towns of Thomas and Davis will be used to power an onsite data center. Fundamental Data’s proposed plant, which would be just …

Data Analysts Urge for Audit and Investigation of 2024 Pennsylvania Election Results

The Election Truth Alliance (ETA) is petitioning Pennsylvania officials to conduct a hand audit of paper voting records from the 2024 U.S. General election due to their analysis that has identified patterns consistent with vote manipulation in Election Day …

Residents raise alarms about Oldham County data center plan

LA GRANGE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Tim Tipton estimates there are dozens of properties that neighbor a chunk of rolling farmland in this rural part of Oldham County where a developer wants to build a $6 billion data center complex. For his part, Tipton says what is …

Microsoft Hits Pause Button on $1B in Data Centers in Ohio

Microsoft Corp. is pausing a plan to spend $1 billion building three data centers in central Ohio—just a few months after it also put on hold plans to build portions of a $3.3-billion data center in Wisconsin. To expand its cloud computing infrastructure, …

Data centers bring money to small towns. But do they also bring jobs?

Liberty Energy, Range Resources, ILC to build gas plant for data centers in Pennsylvania

A consortium of companies aim to build a natural gas plant in Pennsylvania to serve data centers. Liberty Energy, Imperial Land Corporation (ILC), a real estate developer, and Range Resources, a natural gas exploration and production company, have signed a …

US regulators deny rehearing on co-located Amazon data center energy pact

NEW YORK : U.S. energy regulators this week denied a request to reconsider a decision that blocked an Amazon data center, connected directly to a Talen Energy nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, from ramping up its power use, government filings show. Big …

Photonic revolution: New chips process data using light instead of electricity

Two companies unveiled photonic chips using light instead of electricity for faster, more efficient computing. These chips solve real-world problems better than current electronic processors, crucial as Moore's Law stalls. AI-driven demand meets …

"AI is simplifying technology itself" - Google Cloud CEO outlines AI hopes, tariff strategy and plans for future data ...

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has said the company looks poised to go from strength to strength as the global demand for more AI technology continues unabated. Fresh from hosting the opening keynote at the company's Google Cloud Next 25 in Las Vegas, …

A closer look at what AI data centers will mean for US energy demand 

The push for artificial intelligence is expected to fuel a sharp rise in electricity demand, with consumption from data centers expected to more than double by the end of the decade, The Wall Street Journal reports.  According to a recent report by the …