2+ hour, 25+ min ago   (419+ words) LOS ANGELES -- Mayor Karen Bass' press relations office communicates through WhatsApp messages that auto-delete every 24 hours, potentially shielding the messages from public records requests, according to three sources familiar with the office. Even though he was no longer a spokesperson,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (988+ words) KINGDOM CITY -- Crusoe AI, a Denver-based artificial intelligence company and data center developer, is aiming to build a 200-acre, $4.5-billion hyper scale data center in Callaway County. Many residents have questions, and some have concerns. Callaway County and Crusoe leadership…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (680+ words) MONTGOMERY CITY -- Amazon and community activists made their cases Wednesday for and against a proposed data center project in Montgomery County. The tech giant held an open house at Montgomery County Middle School to provide more information about the project....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (728+ words) Missouri is living in the reality of data centers and artificial intelligence, meaning it must adapt to, not avoid, the boom of data centers cropping up around the country, state officials said. The forum came as contention around the data…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (329+ words) Hearing backlash from residents, cities and counties across the country in recent weeks have blocked planned data centers amid concerns over rising electricity prices and environmental harms. The local actions come as state lawmakers also are looking to limit or…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (433+ words) Headlines have been full of misunderstood and misrepresented claims about data centers. If you only looked at this reporting, you would only see them as big, concrete boxes filled with computers that consume too much electricity and water. That picture…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (263+ words) For a bunch of unremarkable warehouses, they're generating a lot of controversy. Data centers -- low-slung facilities that house the server racks and energy systems that underpin the digital economy -- have become a heated issue on the campaign trail. Politicians from…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (484+ words) Those of us of a certain age -- born before about 1970 -- have fond memories of the mailman (yes, that's what we called him, not "postal carrier") dropping off a pile of letters and cards into the mailbox down the driveway six…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (420+ words) Schools across the U.S. have ramped up cell phone bans over the last few years. Now researchers are testing the effects, and the results are mixed. Even the researchers, however, are warning schools not to pull the plug on the policy....

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (487+ words) Everyday use of artificial intelligence tools is growing, and with it, plans to build power-hungry data centers to support them. On Wednesday, Missouri lawmakers on the House Utilities Committee explored the potential benefits and pitfalls of the forthcoming data-center boom....