Dominion Energy says its upcoming $11-a-month rate hike is driven by grid upgrades and inflation — not Virginia’s rapidly growing data-center industry. Critics note that Virginia hosts one of the ...

Big Tech has come to town. Billion-dollar companies are in a race to build “hyperscale” data centers to fuel their push to power artificial intelligence and cloud computing technologies. The rural ...

Upgrading to Windows 11 is still possible even after Windows 10 reached the end of support on October 14, 2025. Although many devices continue to run the retired operating system, switching to Windows ...

At least 16 data center projects, worth a combined $64 billion, have been blocked or delayed as local opposition mounts to the developments, according to a new study. Research collected by Data Center ...

A new study found the total value of blocked or delayed data center projects during a three-month stretch earlier this year exceeded the total in the prior two years, signaling accelerating opposition ...

A compact data format optimized for transmitting structured information to Large Language Models (LLMs) with 30-60% fewer tokens than JSON. TOON (Token-Oriented Object Notation) combines YAML's ...

Nigeria is abandoning plans to impose a 15% duty on imported refined petroleum products, which is a blow to its new private domestic refinery of billionaire Aliko Dangote. “The implementation of the ...

COACHELLA, Calif. (KESQ) - Local farmers and agriculture leaders gathered in Coachella Thursday to share the challenges they've been facing in the industry. From high labor costs, competition or ...

COWETA COUNTY, Ga. — Massive data centers proposed for metro Atlanta expect to use millions of gallons of water per day. Some of those data centers are planning to use more water than entire Georgia ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Louisville residents shared their concerns Wednesday about the environmental impacts and utility usage of data centers as the city weighs how they should be permitted. The ...

I spend a lot of time with city and county teams trying to wrangle data into something we can trust and actually use. When folks ask where to start, I don’t point to a tool, I point to governance. Not ...

Microsoft will process M365 Copilot prompts and responses locally in 15 countries as part of its growing commitment to digital sovereignty. Microsoft will allow customers in 15 countries to process ...