Round Rock is getting a new data center, another step in Central Texas’ emergence as a hotspot for artificial intelligence infrastructure. In a contentious meeting Thursday, the Round Rock City ...

Water consumption by data centers and cryptomining facilities will be the focus of a new data-collection effort launched Friday by the Texas Public Utility Commission. Demand to build new data centers ...

Federal immigration agents detain a man during an operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Jan. 27, 2026. (Photo by Octavio JONES / AFP via ...

In May of 2025, MySQL celebrated its 30th anniversary. Not many technology projects go strong for three decades, let alone at the level of use that MySQL enjoys. MySQL is listed at #2 on the ...

This coal plant in central Pennsylvania, once the largest in the state, was shuttered in 2023 after powering the region for over 50 years. Earlier this year, wrecking crews blasted the plant’s cooling ...

MIAMI VALLEY — There are hundreds of data centers operating across Ohio. The facilities power the internet and Artificial Intelligence (AI). There are at least two more of them on the way to the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah State Legislature is fast-tracking a bill that would force data centers to report how much water they use. On Thursday, the Legislative Water Development Commission ...

In the world of data centers, ensuring a facility will be online 99.999 percent of the time, is everything. Access to power is the number one priority when developers are trying to figure out where to ...

The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database contains selected macroeconomic data series from the statistical appendix of the World Economic Outlook report, which presents the IMF staff's analysis and ...

Every day, we tap and swipe on our favorite apps without a second thought. But have we ever paused to consider what happens to our data in the process? From social media platforms to fitness trackers, ...

Databases will soon be capable of monitoring their own health, identifying bottlenecks, adjusting configurations, and even rerouting traffic in real time. Generative AI has already had a profound ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Tech companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars building data centers, racing to power an AI revolution they say will bring broad ...