ALBANY, N.Y. (WNYT)- A New York law now requires retail stores and food businesses to take cash, and some Capital Region businesses have already changed how they operate. Related: Point increase for ...

CHICAGO — As large data centers burn electricity as fast as some small cities, utilities and advocates are looking for ways to ensure they’re not passing the buck for related infrastructure costs to ...

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 ...

Immigrants, authorized and otherwise, are less likely to commit serious crime or be sent to prison than are native-born Americans. That simple, statistically backed fact, is making the professional ...

March 6 (Reuters) - Oracle and OpenAI have abandoned plans to expand a flagship artificial intelligence data center in Texas after negotiations dragged over financing and OpenAI's changing needs, ...

Oracle Corp. is planning to ax thousands of jobs, among its moves to handle a cash crunch from a massive AI data center expansion effort. The job reductions will affect divisions across the company ...

Communities are protesting new data centers due to environmental impacts and rising utility costs. Data centers require significant amounts of electricity and water, with consumption expected to grow.

As part of the transaction, Incite founder and CEO Matt Griffin will join Definian as senior vice president of insights and AI and co-owner Rita Brasler will assume the role of insights practice lead ...

Billion-dollar data center and energy projects are forging ahead since Sen. Dave McCormick touted the projects back in July 2025. There’s been some community pushback to a few of the projects, even as ...

Illinois lawmakers have introduced the POWER Act to regulate new large-scale data centers. The bill addresses concerns about data centers' impact on electricity prices, water usage, and the ...

Boom Supersonic wants to build the world’s first commercial supersonic airliner. Founded in 2014, the company set out to make air travel dramatically faster — up to twice the speed of today’s ...

Interviewed by WSJ Editor in Chief Emma Tucker at the World Economic Forum in January, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei discussed topics including the fields most at risk of AI-driven employment disruption, ...