As a teen in Sri Lanka, Ray Jayawardhana wrote to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory asking about its Voyager and Viking missions. In response, he received a booklet with pictures of Jupiter and Saturn. On Thursday, the astrophysicist who studies distant…
All of that capacity needs electricity. In its Short-Term Energy Outlook released on October 6, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said it forecasts electricity demand from the commercial sector, which includes data centers, to increase steadily throughout 2027, growing by 2.8% year over year.
A win for William Lawrence is likely to embolden Democrats who want a tougher approach to Silicon Valley heading into the 2028 presidential election. William Lawrence, Democratic candidate for Michigan's 7th Congressional District, speaks about AI and data centers during a campaign…
Due to the physical and local nature of data centers, they have become a point of contention for both Democrats and Republicans. Data centers have prompted major backlash from voters, with rising utility bills and a concern over water supplies…
Lessons learnt from serious artificial intelligence (AI) incidents should not be confined to one country or company, but shared more systematically so that others can learn from failures and emerging risks, said Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong. Speaking at a…
If you build anything that touches staked ETH, sooner or later you'll run into a token like ETHx. It looks like "ETH, but earning", and that framing hides most of what a developer actually needs to know. This post uses…
PAGE, Ariz. — Doug Herrera still lives in the house his father built, though his dad died some time ago from cancer. Herrera wonders if that illness could have been linked to pollutants from nearby uranium mining. Now, he worries that…
Published October 29, 2026 The governor of New York state signed a new law on Wednesday preventing minors from using AI chatbots that act as companions, in one of the broadest moves yet for restricting consumer-facing models. The law requires chatbot operators,…
New regulatory requirements could filter out rogue projects, Raul Martynek says Texas and regulation do not ordinarily go hand-in-hand, but these are not ordinary times in the data center industry. The backlash against the AI data center build-out, which has…
The AFL-CIO is drafting its own “gold-standard” AI legislation it hopes lawmakers can pass next Congress, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler told Semafor. The bill, which will touch on “worker protections and privacy and data protections” as well as “ideas around…
State legislatures moving faster than Congress.
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