Reuters

Investors press Amazon, Microsoft and Google on water, power use in US data centers

LONDON, April 6 (Reuters) - Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet's Google have each recently abandoned construction of multibillion-dollar data centers over community opposition and now the companies are ...
wchstv

Google has acquired land for potential data center in Putnam County, officials announce

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The Atlantic

Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers

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Google data center water estimates go public, residents in Roanoke and Botetourt react

BOTETOURT CO., Va. – A proposed Google data center campus in Botetourt County could use between 2 million and 8 million gallons of drinking water per day, according to an executed agreement between ...
Time

6 Graphs That Show Where the U.S. Leads China on AI—and Where It Doesn’t

Two important things happened on January 20, 2025. In Washington, D.C., Donald Trump was inaugurated as President of the United States. In Hangzhou, China, a little-known Chinese firm called DeepSeek ...
Wired

The Real AI Talent War Is for Plumbers and Electricians

The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren’t enough skilled tradespeople in the US to keep up. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that between 2024 ...
The Washington Post

Supersized data centers are coming. See how they will transform America.

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Harvard Business Review

Why Your Company Needs a Chief Data, Analytics, and AI Officer

How is AI and data leadership at large organizations being transformed by the accelerating pace of AI adoption? Do these leaders’ mandates need to change? And should overseeing AI and data be viewed ...
Reuters

India's Adani seeks up to $5 billion investment in Google data center to join AI boom

Nov 28 (Reuters) - India's Adani Group plans to invest up to $5 billion in Alphabet-owned Google's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab India AI data centre project, an executive said on Friday, as it seeks to ...
The Texas Tribune

Google to build three new data centers in Texas in $40 billion investment

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The National Law Review

Pricing Algorithms – Price Tags and Personal and Competitor Data- States Step Up Algorithmic Pricing Regulation

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