A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles. A Times examination details how the ...

A power line went down outside of Washington, DC, this week. Normally, the grid would only need a few seconds to recover from such an event. But this one took more than 10 minutes because data centers ...

Shalin Savalia is a senior electrical engineer at Amazon Web Services, where he works on data center power systems. The views expressed are his own and do not represent those of his employer. The most ...

Consider this a belated PSA: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings is allowing the company to store more of your data, including media such as “images, files, and audio and video recordings,” ...

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My Ugreen NAS device sits comfortably behind the living room TV, connected directly to the set and to a nearby router. It currently contains three hard drives, each with four terabytes of space. The ...

Microsoft SQL Server 2025’s newly introduced AI capabilities, designed to power Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, have been demonstrated to be a practical attack surface for data ...

You can remove your data from the internet yourself or use services like Incogni or DeleteMe. They send opt-out requests to data brokers. Ever wondered why an online ad feels tailor-made for you? It ...

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.

Android phone users can now claim their portion of a class-action settlement connected to Google's collection of their data. The lawsuit, Taylor v. Google LLC, alleged that Google needlessly collected ...

US regulators and grid operators are calling on data centers to cut their power use when the grid is overloaded, saying it is the only way to connect large-load customers as quickly as they are ...

Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually ...