Researchers were able to read text messages and even traffic for military systems and infrastructure with just a few hundred dollars’ worth of equipment. Geosynchronous satellites, which send internet ...

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills. The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern ...

NPR's Adrian Ma speaks to Sam Levine, former director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, now at UC Berkeley, about the use online data to charge some customers more for products and services.

No wonder Google is desperate for more power: The company’s data centers more than doubled their electricity use in just four years. The eye-popping stat comes from Google’s most recent sustainability ...

Meta has been accused of illegally using copyrighted material to train its AI models — and the tech giant’s defense is pretty thin. The specious defenses don’t end there. As Vanity Fair spotlights in ...

Instagram has a new feature that curates custom Reels feeds for you and your friends. Blend, an invite-only option within individual or group chats, refreshes daily and suggests content based on ...

Data centers accounted for about 1.5 percent of global electricity consumption in 2024, an amount expected to double by 2030 because of AI use The electricity consumption of data centres is projected ...

This rendering, presented to the Cedar Rapids City Council in September 2024, shows the QTS data center proposed in southwest Cedar Rapids. The company has pledged to make an investment of at least ...

The first phase alone of Microsoft’s data center in Mount Pleasant will likely require the same amount of electricity needed to power more than 300,000 homes, according to new information obtained by ...

A company that provides connectivity and colocation services for customers across North America has announced plans to build a data center campus in Central Ohio. Cologix, headquartered in Denver, ...