According to a new report from the International Energy Agency, the world will spend $580 billion on data centers this year — $40 billion more than will be spent finding new oil supplies.

As political resistance builds and local organizing becomes more coordinated, this is now a sustained and intensifying trend,” the authors of the new study wrote.

Terrence and Lesley Bridges have seen their energy bills drop dramatically, from £375 a month down to as low as £40, since they swapped their gas boiler for a HeatHub – a small data centre containing more than 500 computers.

Residential utility bills rose 6% on average nationwide in August compared with the same period last year, according to the Energy Information Administration.

Utilities are producing eye-popping forecasts about the amount of electricity they'll need to power massive new data centers that are feeding the fast-growing AI economy

It’s another news roundup! This time, we cover how, using data analytics – and ironically, some AI – a team at Cornell University has mapped the environmental impact of AI by state. They determined that,

According to the AG's office, the "cyber incident" exposed personal information, including social security numbers.

Jobs and inflation data will be released late and with caveats, complicating the Federal Reserve’s interest rate deliberations.