John Steinbach was shocked to receive a $281 electricity bill in January 2026—a huge spike from the roughly $100 he’d paid the previous month. “It’s just so far beyond any bill that I’ve ever had,” he ...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel collaborated with Wisconsin Watch to develop this fact brief. Wisconsin Watch is a member of the Gigafact program, newsrooms across the US that deliver bite-sized fact ...

California Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan reiterated the importance of data centers transparency during a Progressive Caucus news conference on Tuesday, March 17, 2026. This photo shows servers in ...

Last June, the Trump administration hauled Texas into court, claiming that a decades-old state law once championed by Republicans violated federal law. Within six hours, the two sides reached an ...

Gartner Data & Analytics Summit—Strategy Showcases Mosaic Sentinel and Cloud Cost Arbitrage at Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2026. As enterprises scale analytics and AI workloads, usage-based ...

LIMA — A public meeting to accept comments surrounding the construction of a data center in Allen County will be held at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 11, at the Lima Public Library, 650 W. Market St., ...

SAN JOSE — Amid blowback to the spread of automated license-plate readers surveilling Bay Area cities and fears about such technology enabling more immigration enforcement, the San Jose Police ...

TALLAHASSEE — New restrictions on large-scale data centers, part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ push to tamp down on the maturing field of artificial intelligence, won Senate backing Thursday. After a ...

Hyperscale data centers raise concerns among Wisconsin residents about water and energy consumption. Most of a data center's water usage comes from generating the massive amount of electricity ...

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...

Racks of servers inside an AWS data center in 2023. (AWS Photo / Noah Berger) Lisa Karstetter grew up in Eastern Washington’s agricultural country. By the mid-2000s, she was running the Quincy Valley ...