Sens. Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal on Wednesday introduced the first bipartisan bill in Congress aimed at preventing data center power usage from spiking consumers’ electric bills. The ...

Washington correspondent, CBS News 24/7 and CBS Stations Natalie Brand is a Washington correspondent covering the White House and Capitol Hill for CBS News 24/7 and CBS Stations. Greg Pirio bought his ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has made a career of mainstreaming terrible ideas, but his proposed moratorium on data center construction might be his worst yet. “We have not a clue. We are totally ...

Bob Herman covers health insurance, government programs, hospitals, physicians, and other providers — reporting on how money influences those businesses and shapes what we all pay for care. He is also ...

If you thought constructing massive AI data centers that consume electricity and water at a monumental scale was a recklessly short-sighted idea, Elon Musk is prepared to up the ante. SpaceX filed a ...

A self-styled social networking platform built for AI agents contained a misconfigured database which allowed full read and write access to all data, security researchers have revealed. Moltbook was ...

As utilities face increasing pressure to protect data, meet regulatory standards, and manage expanding AMI networks, the need for unified, secure meter management has never been greater. Florida Power ...

Ecommerce and Meta often go hand in hand. You can give Meta a 20,000-item catalog and a budget, and with its AI-powered Advantage+ campaigns, it’ll try to pair the right person with the right product, ...

Private tax return information about Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, among others, was disclosed by a former Booz Allen contractor. The Treasury Department ...

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 ...

A federal judge in California this week struck down the Justice Department's demand for the state to hand over sensitive voter roll data, ruling that it would trample on residents' privacy rights and ...

Despite many proposals, there is little consensus among governors, lawmakers and tech executives about exactly how much the companies behind data centers should pay for electricity. By Ivan Penn and ...