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The best of CES 2026: 25 products we secretly love and would actually buy

2026 is shaping up to be the year of the book-style folding phone, and CES brought yet another entry from the beloved ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

Supercomputer in a suitcase: US firm shrinks AI data center to the size of a carry-on

Californian startup ODINN unveils AI supercomputer that is the size of a carry-on, promising sovereign AI infrastructure to ...
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Lackawanna County leaders learn about data centers on trip to Virginia's 'Data Center Alley' | Action 16 Investigates

LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. — Elected officials and economic development leaders from Lackawanna County took a trip to a place known as "Data Center Alley" on Wednesday. The goal—to see the industry at work ...
The Shreveport Times

What is a data center? Here's what it does, why it matters

Data centers are facilities that house equipment to store, process and deliver large amounts of digital data. These centers power common online services like websites, cloud storage, streaming and ...
The Indianapolis Star

How the Midwest's data center gold rush may become a political reckoning

Alec Willis moved to Monrovia, Indiana, weeks before learning he would soon have a new neighbor: a 390-acre Google data center campus that will require twice the electricity of all Indianapolis ...
NBC4 Columbus

Report links data center to rare cancers, raising questions about central Ohioans’ safety

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A report linked Amazon data centers to miscarriages and rare cancers, drawing concerns about data centers’ presence in central Ohio. According to a report from Rolling Stone, ...
The Hill

Democrats press tech giants on data center energy use, rising electricity bills

Three Senate Democrats said Tuesday that they are investigating the impact of data centers on consumer electricity bills amid concerns that the expansion of energy-hungry artificial intelligence (AI) ...
Ars Technica

Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans

Senators launched a probe Tuesday demanding that tech companies explain exactly how they plan to prevent data center projects from increasing electricity bills in communities where prices are already ...
Hazleton Standard Speaker

Municipalities react to planned data centers

Supervisors in Kline Twp.are looking for a bigger place to meet with Amazon Web Services about a data center after canceling a meeting on Dec. 8 because the crowd couldn’t fit inside the municipal ...
Star Tribune

NDAs, code names and shell companies: How Minnesota officials support data center secrecy

As the development firm Oppidan explored building a large-scale data center in North Mankato, they emailed a request: “Can the city sign an NDA?” Five minutes later, North Mankato said yes. The city’s ...
The New York Times

Google Buys Data Center Company for $4.75 Billion

The deal for Intersect, a data center and energy developer, is set to help Google build out its infrastructure for artificial intelligence. By Eli Tan Reporting from Seattle Google has agreed to buy ...