Louisiana lawmakers advanced a new congressional map that reduces the state's majority-Black districts from two to one. The proposed map, backed by Republicans, would likely force two incumbent Black ...

Data centers may be coming to your neighborhood as side installations associated with new homes—and in exchange would offer subsidized electricity and Internet access along with backup batteries to ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Updated on April 29 at 9:58 p.m. The Supreme Court on Wednesday, in the case of Louisiana v. Callais, struck down a Louisiana ...

There was a time in the late 2000s and early 2010s when seeing a “Sign in with Google” option on a new website or service was a sign of relief for me. I didn’t need to create a new username and ...

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. As ...

Data centers are physical facilities that house the technology needed for digital services like generative AI and cloud computing. The growth of data centers is raising environmental concerns due to ...

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 ...

The United States has more than 3,000 operational data centers, and that number is expected to grow substantially in the years ahead. More than 1,500 new data centers are in various stages of ...

When Scooter Mangold first heard how much water Microsoft’s data center engineers were requesting from his Central Texas water company, he didn’t just say no. “I told them they’d lost their minds,” ...

Documents show that one of Google’s new data centers would be powered by a natural gas plant that emits millions of tons of emissions each year—an increasingly common trend in the industry. A new data ...

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 ...

Brian Janous, a former Microsoft executive, and his firm Cloverleaf have become modern-day land men, packaging electricity and land for data centers. Brian Janous, co-founder of Cloverleaf ...