The United States is in the middle of an unprecedented data center buildout that has especially hit rural communities living near ample empty land where tech companies see fit to plop down these ...

The US federal government’s central energy information agency is planning to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use, according to a letter seen by WIRED.

Algorithms are increasingly using personal data to determine the minimum pay a worker is willing to accept, consumer watchdogs say. You've likely already felt the digital sting of "surveillance ...

The featured gameplay demonstrates a specialized modification in Minecraft that automates the mining process for various resources. When a player strikes a single block within an ore vein, the mod ...

As we drove through southwest Memphis, KeShaun Pearson told me to keep my window down—our destination was best tasted, not viewed. Along the way, we passed an abandoned coal plant to our right, then ...

Roughly one in five student interactions with generative artificial intelligence on school technology involved cheating, self-harm, bullying, and other problematic behaviors, according to data ...

Starcloud plans to mine Bitcoin from orbit using ASIC hardware, arguing the economics of space computing favor specialized mining chips over GPUs. Starcloud, an Nvidia-backed orbital data center ...

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...

Anthropic is accusing three Chinese AI companies of setting up more than 24,000 fake accounts with its Claude AI model to improve their own models. The accusations come amid debates over how strictly ...

The cryptocurrency investment firm says Bitcoin mining is being unfairly lumped with AI data centers, arguing miners act as flexible grid demand, not constant energy drains. The rapid buildout of AI ...