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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 ...

Surging demand for electricity is driving up prices for natural gas turbines, complicating efforts to supply power to a wave of data centers needed to support artificial intelligence. Turbines prices ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Minevich is a NY-based strategist focused on human centric AI. STONE RIDGE, VIRGINIA - JULY 17: In an aerial view, an Amazon ...

LONDON, April 6 (Reuters) - Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet's Google have each recently abandoned construction of multibillion-dollar data centers over community opposition and now the companies are ...

NEW YORK, April 7 (Reuters) - U.S. power consumption, which hit its second straight annual record high in 2025, will rise further in 2026 and 2027, the Energy Information Administration said in its ...

The AI race is triggering a Wall Street financing surge for massive data centers. Dealmakers are rewriting the financing playbook to raise eye-popping sums. Meet the power players moving tens of ...

Who doesn’t love a good round of FOMO? From dot-com to Web 2.0, virtual reality to blockchain, the tech industry has had its share of being too afraid to miss out on a trend. The AI bubble is the big ...

AI is consuming staggering amounts of energy—already over 10% of U.S. electricity—and the demand is only accelerating. Now, researchers have unveiled a radically more efficient approach that could ...

As the war in Iran erupted five weeks ago, social media sleuths across Western and Chinese platforms flagged a wave of viral posts detailing equipment at U.S. bases, the movements of American carrier ...