Nearly 100 gigawatts of new data center capacity could come online by 2030. ER Steel argues the real bottleneck is not compute but construction coordination, grid access, and long-term operational ...

The hydrologic system is subjected unprecedented stresses and increasing demands driven by climate variabilities, landuse changes, groundwater ...

Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...

Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. is a policy reporter at The Verge ...

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 ...

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has launched two preview versions of its newest large language model, DeepSeek V4, a much-awaited update to last year’s V3.2 model and the accompanying R1 reasoning model that ...

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.

Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview, which it said is an advanced AI model that excels at identifying weaknesses and security flaws within software. Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, CrowdStrike, Palo ...

Claude’s Excel add-in combines automation with a natural language interface to simplify financial modeling tasks. As demonstrated by Ali H. Salem, this add-in supports workflows such as creating ...

A hot potato: GitHub has announced that starting April 24, the company will begin using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve its AI models unless they opt out.

John Steinbach was shocked to receive a $281 electricity bill in January 2026—a huge spike from the roughly $100 he’d paid the previous month. “It’s just so far beyond any bill that I’ve ever had,” he ...