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 ...

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For the hundreds of communities who’ve been saddled with data centers in recent years, the bulky fixtures are sources of unbearable noise, soaring energy prices, and plenty of electrical fires. Add ...

I’ve been helping to care for my elderly parents for six years. I consider it a privilege. Yet lately I’ve felt overwhelmed—exhausted by sustained fear, grief, chaos and, yes, frustration. I know I ...

Silicon Valley entrepreneurs prefer to talk of possibilities rather than obstacles, and of vast revenue opportunities to be seized through sheer force of will. That defiant optimism now faces the ...

Two men have been charged in connection with an alleged ISIS-inspired terrorist plot planned in Michigan, acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba said Wednesday. Habba said in a video on the ...

Darren Rhodes does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Big Tech companies use secrecy agreements with local governments to keep communities from knowing who is building in their backyards. On a March afternoon in Mason County, Kentucky, Dr. Timothy ...

ASHBURN, Va.—Driving up the six-lane Route 28 in Loudoun County, Virginia, there’s a dark blue one on the left. Further up the way in a small clearing of trees, there’s a gray one on the right. Across ...

Leeds Beckett University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. A few years ago I climbed over a gate and found myself gazing down at a valley. After I’d been walking for a few minutes, ...

There are over a thousand planned or existing data centers across the US, according to a BI investigation. Major tech companies are racing to construct even more as the AI boom continues. But at what ...