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The latest Consumer Price Index shows that the average electric bill went up more than 5% from September 2024 to September 2025. That's faster than the inflation rate for the same period. Conventional ...

MIT Technology Review’s highly subjective take on the latest buzz about AI Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, ...

Treasure Data today announced the launch and general availability of Treasure Data AI Marketing Cloud. Unifying trusted customer data, secure AI agents, and intelligent activation, AI Marketing Cloud ...

AI data centers typically operate at 20 to 40 kilowatts per rack, with designs targeting 50 to 100 kilowatts or more; however, many can't break ground because the grids lack sufficient capacity. Power ...

TURNOUT AT THE CITY MEETING THERE TONIGHT. YEAH, GUYS, CITY OFFICIALS ACTUALLY HAD TO MOVE THE MEETING OUT OF CITY HALL AND HERE TO THIS NEARBY EVENT CENTER TO ACCOUNT FOR THE INFLUX OF PEOPLE FROM ...

“AI” needs a lot of computing resources, which is why new data centers are cropping up anywhere there’s cheap land. But powering all those hungry servers takes a lot of energy, and overburdened power ...

ATLANTA — Georgia’s Public Service Commission is weighing a plan that could determine how we power our future. Georgia Power is asking to spend $15 billion to meet projected future energy needs fueled ...

The huge demand for energy to power data centers will be a key focus for antitrust regulators in the future, a former top official at the U.S. Justice Department’s trustbusting division said.

The utility plans to ask state regulators for approval to add 10 gigawatts of power, enough to support major new industrial growth. The company says it needs to prepare for potential demand from data ...

Kentucky Ag Commissioner Jonathan Shell says data centers are fine, but farmland must stay productive amid trade challenges and rising grocery costs. Toyota's New Century Coupe Is the Tip of the Spear ...

Nvidia makes the chips that support artificial intelligence, making it something of a picks-and-shovels play on AI. AI needs to "live" somewhere, which favors real estate investment trusts. AI needs ...