Data centers popping up all over Illinois are sucking up millions of gallons of water a day, at a pace that the state can't keep up with. With the Chicago area situated next to the massive Lake ...

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A hot potato: It's no secret that people don't want data centers built near their homes, but the sheer magnitude of these feelings has been revealed in a survey. Seven out of ten Americans say they ...

WASHINGTON — Artificial intelligence company Anthropic will study use of orbital data centers being developed by SpaceX. The two companies announced agreements May 6 giving Anthropic, developer of a ...

A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...

Meta has found a new source of training data for its AI models: its own employees. The company plans to use data culled from the mouse movements and keystrokes of its own staff in its pursuit to build ...

On a Saturday morning, you head to the hardware store. Your neighbors’ Ring cameras film your walk to the car. Your car’s sensors, cameras and microphones record your speed, how you drive, where ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

Some grocers are using AI to help set pricing as shoppers chase deals and split trips across retailers. Targeted markdowns on perishables can help cut waste and turn “shrink” into revenue. Tools like ...

CINCINNATI—Late at night, or when her 18-month-old daughter is napping, Jessica Sharp logs onto Chat GPT and asks it to help her in her fight to stop a data center from being built just steps away ...

The deportation of a Guatemalan mother and daughter who were detained before boarding a flight raises new questions about how the Trump administration is using government databases for immigration ...

Cutting corners: American AI companies are racing to build as many data centers as they can, but limits in domestic manufacturing and energy supply are slowing progress. As a result, only about half ...