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 ...

Starlink says it may also share personal data with partners to help it "develop AI-enabled tools that improve your customer experience.” Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering home technology, ...

Data center operators and utilities often do not disclose facility-specific energy and water usage data. The Republic built a database to estimate data centers' energy capacity by analyzing air ...

Even for the person in charge of protecting the data of an entire city, total privacy is elusive. Ginger Armbruster, Seattle’s chief data privacy officer, recently found herself on the other side of a ...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is asking companies to provide information about “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech” products that would “directly support investigations activities,” according to ...

Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in technology and education. He is an ongoing contributor to the CDW family of magazines. Withstand, respond, recover: These are the tenets of cyber ...

The Joint Tax Board of Nigeria has made it easier for Nigerians to access their Tax Identification Number (Tax ID) online, eliminating the need for a separate registration process. The Tax ID, a ...

Meta has detailed for the first time the large amount of water its artificial intelligence data center being built in rural northeast Louisiana will require, estimating the average daily use for the ...

If you’re going online to buy some last-minute gifts this holiday season, there’s a chance the price you pay will be influenced by what’s known as “surveillance pricing.” Some retailers are using ...

Life might not be entirely paperless yet, but the truth is that the vast majority of our important documents, photos, videos and other files are all now digital. This is good, as it saves space in our ...

Store loyalty programs used to be simple: You’d get a punch card at a local sub shop, buy eight sandwiches and get your ninth for free. It felt like a transparent “thank you” for your business. But ...

Every day, liquefied natural gas terminals around the world warm ultra cold LNG back into gas so it can be delivered to homes, power plants, and industry. In the process, an enormous amount of cold ...