Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. is a policy reporter at The Verge ...

Microsoft Visual Studio Pro 2026 is a full coding environment for building, testing, debugging and collaborating on software projects. It doesn’t run on our beloved Macs, but we know that some Cult of ...

Span, a California-based startup, has developed small, fractional data centers, or "nodes," called XFRA units. The idea is to take advantage of unused electrical capacity on local grids, which the ...

MCP (Model Context Protocol) provides a universal standard for connecting LLMs to external data sources and tools, eliminating the need to manually copy-paste context into a chat session and enabling ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

Wisconsin is becoming a popular location for data centers due to its climate, water access, and affordable land. The majority of a data center's water footprint comes from the offsite electricity ...

Software giant Atlassian announced new AI tools and agents on Wednesday, with a focus on turning data into visual assets and applications. This includes the rollout of the visual tool Remix in open ...

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming ...

A hot potato: GitHub has announced that starting April 24, the company will begin using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve its AI models unless they opt out.

Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually ...

Discovery Ridge in Henrico County is part of a new affordable housing program funded by data center revenue. When Emma Swainston decided as a teenager to pursue a career in teaching, she came to grips ...

WASHINGTON — While computing and data shape nearly every aspect of modern life, efforts to expand data and computing education in K-12 settings have grown rapidly but unevenly, says a new report from ...