PHOENIX — Arizonans are smoking less. But that's not a good thing, at least as far as early childhood development efforts in the state. The 80-cent-a-pack tax on cigarettes that Arizonans approved in ...

MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (KABC) -- Neighbors in Monterey Park protested on Wednesday over a proposed data center in their community. People are worried about the air quality and health impacts that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Leonard speaks to a crowd of GOP party fixtures at a dinner honoring the late state Sen.

Across the country, angry neighbors are storming city halls worried about rising electricity rates, disappearing farmland and a growing list of fears focused on warehouse-sized data centers.

On Monday, Meta said that “Meta Compute” will oversee the company's global fleet of data centers, computing capacity, and supplier partnerships as it ramps up work on frontier AI and what Zuckerberg ...

Disney+, which is a leading subscription streamer but is looking to catch up with some streaming and digital rivals in terms of daily engagement, is adding vertical videos to the service. The arrival ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Taylor Soper on Jan 5, 2026 at 2:28 ...

The Trump administration has spent months on a campaign to collect nonpublic voter data from nearly every state, facing pushback from states and concerns from privacy advocates. President Donald Trump ...

The AI boom currently underpinning the United States economy has led to a rapid expansion of data centers. These facilities are necessary for processing AI calculations, especially for cloud services, ...

Neal Kurk fought for privacy rights for three decades as a Republican state lawmaker in New Hampshire. Now he is joining a fight in the famously libertarian haven to keep the federal government from ...

Democratic lawmakers are asking a federal watchdog to take a closer look at Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s role in promoting a nationwide buildout of artificial intelligence data centers and ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Tuesday he will push for a moratorium on AI data center construction in an effort to “give democracy a chance to catch up” amid concerns about the “unregulated sprint” ...