In spring 2026, social media users spread a rumor that a new data center in Utah would use about 16 billion gallons of water a year and that the center would be 2.7 times the size of Manhattan. Utah ...

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 ...

NTT DATA, a global leader in AI, digital business and technology services, today announced the evolution of its Global Data Centers sales and client services model as the business continues to scale ...

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 ...

Founded by former OpenAI staff members and funded by Amazon and Google, Anthropic has raised the stakes in the GPT wars. Anthropic's Claude Desktop app often outshines its ChatGPT rival in various ...

Add Fidelity Brokerage Services to the list of big firms that have recently faced cyberattacks by bad actors in order to glean clients’ private information, this time including passport and driver’s ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

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.

Following fan roastings for the AI-generated background art in its Crunchyroll fantasy anime, 'Ascendance of a Bookworm,' the studio promises to actually animate the sequence with human artists.

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming ...

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.