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Bigger data centers are coming. How can Wyoming get ahead of the boom?
2+ hour, 18+ min ago (1085+ words) As data centers pop up across Wyoming, many communities are concerned about what this could mean for utility rates and water use. But there are ways to get ahead of these issues, according to a November white paper from the…...
Verizon just had a big outage. Here's what we know
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (490+ words) The biggest mobile network in the United States, Verizon, experienced a huge outage on Wednesday, leaving at least tens of thousands of customers without cell service for much of the day. An update on Verizon's website Thursday said the outage…...
Viral global TikToks: A twist on soccer, Tanzania's Charlie Chaplin, hope in Gaza
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1785+ words) More than one billion users visit TikTok every month, and since its launch in 2016, it's grown to become one of the most popular social media platforms. And controversial, too. India, for example, banned the app in 2020, and Australia barred children…...
This TikTok video is fake, but every word was taken from a real creator
6+ mon, 6+ day ago (857+ words) Millions of TikTokkers have watched some version of a video in the past week falsely stating that "they're installing incinerators at Alligator Alcatraz," referring to an internet conspiracy theory that furnaces were being set up at a state-run immigration detention…...
AI-driven data centers are growing in the drought-stricken Mountain West, analysis finds
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (301+ words) Data centers, which power AI tools and cloud services, use massive amounts of water to cool servers so they don't overheat. An average-sized data center uses about 2 million liters of water per day, roughly the same amount as 6,500 households, according…...