File - In this Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, photo, a woman stands at her well at her property on the outskirts of The Dalles, Oregon. She said the water table that her well draws from dropped 15 feet in the ...

Aerial view of Cheryl Shadden's home with the Marathon Digital bitcoin mine in the background in Hood County. The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) plans to conduct a survey to study the water ...

Water consumption by data centers and cryptomining facilities will be the focus of a new data-collection effort launched Friday by the Texas Public Utility Commission. Demand to build new data centers ...

Federal immigration agents detain a man during an operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Jan. 27, 2026. (Photo by Octavio JONES / AFP via ...

In May of 2025, MySQL celebrated its 30th anniversary. Not many technology projects go strong for three decades, let alone at the level of use that MySQL enjoys. MySQL is listed at #2 on the ...

Driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, Microsoft is internally projecting that water use at its data centers will more than double by 2030 from 2020, including in places that face shortages.

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. It's easy to ...

Tech companies are building data centers as quickly as possible to run AI. These facilities are controviersial because they use copious amounts of electricity and might tax an electrical grid that in ...

Wisconsin's electricity demand is projected to rise after years of decline due to new data center projects. To meet the new demand, utilities plan to build both renewable energy projects and new ...

The Meta data center in Richland Parish has, since the announcement of its construction in December 2024, been rightly regarded as a major economic boon to one of the state’s poorest regions. In ...

Meta has detailed for the first time the large amount of water its artificial intelligence data center being built in rural northeast Louisiana will require, estimating the average daily use for the ...