In a greenfield industrial park in rural Aiken County, South Carolina, Meta is building a new $800 million data center that’s much like any of the other hyperscale data centers giant tech companies ...

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 ...

Ericsson Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Swedish networking and telecommunications giant Ericsson, says attackers have stolen data belonging to over 15,000 employees and customers after hacking one of ...

Skip the noise. Get the download. Digital services in the UAE experienced outages earlier this week as data centers in the country were hit by Iranian drone strikes. An AWS facility in Bahrain was ...

MONROVIA, Ind. — From his property in Monrovia, just southwest of Indianapolis, Chris Lamberson can see the early stages of Google's new data center campus, where heavy equipment and machinery are ...

President Donald Trump’s photo op with Big Tech executives on Wednesday suggested that the president is fully aware of and worried about growing public backlash to data centers and their corrosive ...

The big picture: With electricity bills rising due to surging demand from AI data centers, President Trump has called for technology companies to either build their own power plants or help finance ...

The pledge is supposed to commit companies to paying for grid upgrades needed to meet soaring electricity demand from data centers. The pledge is supposed to commit companies to paying for grid ...

Today the White House announced that several major players in tech and AI have agreed to steps that will keep electricity costs from rising due to data centers. Under this Ratepayer Protection Pledge, ...

Several key tech companies signed a nonbinding pledge at the White House on Wednesday that the Trump administration claims will ensure that tech companies do not pass ...

PLEDGE WOULD WORK AND WHAT THIS WOULD MEAN FOR RESIDENTS THERE. PLANS FOR THIS SITE ARE STILL BEING WORKED OUT BY THE DEVELOPER. BUT LAST NIGHT, PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID THAT TECH COMPANIES WILL BE ...

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday during his State of the Union address that his administration has told major technology companies they must build their own power plants for their data centers, ...