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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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 ...

The boom in data center construction is taking up much of the supply of high-tech components, especially processor and memory chips. This demand is squeezing consumer device makers, which are having ...

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 ...

NASA is looking not to the stars but back to our planet for inspiration. In honor of Earth Day, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center shared an interactive digital tool turns satellite images of the planet’s ...

JetBlue Airways is facing a proposed class action lawsuit alleging the airline collects passengers’ personal data and uses it to set airfares, a practice described as “dynamic surveillance pricing.” ...

A new lawsuit alleges that JetBlue collected customers' personal data without their consent and used it to set ticket prices. The proposed class action, filed by New York resident Andrew Phillips, ...

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. As ...

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 ...