The Charlotte City Council voted unanimously Monday to implement a 150-day moratorium on data centers after months of debate over how to handle the increasingly controversial projects. Council members ...

Voters in a Southern California city moved to cement what is believed to be the nation's first ban on data centers, appearing to resoundingly approve a ballot measure that prohibits the facilities ...

PERRYSBURG, Ohio — Perrysburg City Council will vote next week on allowing the Fort Meigs YMCA to manage the municipal pool for the next three seasons after the company that was originally going to ...

Parasite Pool, a home-miner-focused bitcoin mining pool using a novel hybrid payout model, has mined its second block, #945,601, about 48 days after its first. The pool pays 1 bitcoin directly to the ...

As tech’s titans sprint to build a sprawling web of data centers to power the AI boom, some cities and states are racing to stop them. Maine just became the first state to pass a ban on large data ...

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.

Maine looks poised to become the first state to freeze building of new data centers with legislation that could pass this spring, but community backlash against these properties is spreading across ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The effort to ban large-scale data centers in the state is one step closer to getting on the ballot. On Wednesday, the Ohio Ballot Board unanimously approved a proposed ...

As GPUs push rack power past 120kW, the data center’s 40-year reliance on air cooling has hit a physical limit. From direct-to-chip to immersion, here is how liquid cooling is redefining AI ...

Oracle (ORCL) has plans to reduce its workforce by thousands of employees due in part to its immense spending on expanding data center capacity for artificial intelligence, according to Bloomberg. The ...

Azure SQL Managed Instance gains SQL Server 2025 update policy control. GA policy balances new engine features with operational stability governance. Enhanced update management supports enterprise ...