A political backlash against data centers is intensifying across the U.S., with at least 500 organized opposition groups and 70% of Americans opposing new construction near them, according to a Gallup…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed Executive Order 62 on July 14, making the state the first in the U.S. to ban new hyperscale data centers drawing 50 megawatts or more of power for up to one year,…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the nation's first statewide moratorium on data center development, citing an overwhelming surge in applications from small communities that lack the negotiating powe…
Alberta secured Meta Platforms Inc.'s $13-billion, one-gigawatt AI data centre in Sturgeon County through deliberate policy work, while New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a one-year moratorium on n…
AI-generated videos of fake doctors and health influencers are flooding social media with false claims about supplements, targeting older American women, according to a New York Times investigation. T…
A growing backlash against AI data centers is sweeping the U.S., with more than 300 cities, towns, and counties imposing bans or moratoriums on hyperscale data center construction, according to The In…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's first-in-the-nation moratorium on large data centers shows that artificial intelligence has a politics problem, with seven in ten Americans now opposing a data center in t…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday imposing the first statewide moratorium on hyperscale data centers for up to a year, pausing permits for large facilities as the state crea…
A nationwide wave of 142 protests in 42 U.S. states on Saturday marked the first coordinated backlash against AI data center expansion, organized by HumansFirst, a group co-founded by former Tea Party…
A new survey from Americans on AI, based on pooled data from June 25-30 and July 9-13, finds that 66% of Americans are concerned about AI, but views on its harms and benefits split sharply by educatio…
Governments and cities worldwide are imposing moratoriums and bans on new data centre construction due to concerns over electricity, water, and land use, with New York becoming the first U.S. state to…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order enacting a one-year statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data centers, making New York the first state to halt such construction, according to cr…
Morgan Stanley warns that growing opposition to AI data centers in the US is becoming a bottleneck for expansion, potentially delaying investment cycles and reducing total capital needs. New York beca…
The Salamanca City Central School District in upstate New York will introduce a $57,000 humanoid robot named "Sally" into high school classrooms in September as a teaching assistant, marking one of th…
Cheyenne will join a nationwide protest Saturday against AI data center expansion, with a rally planned for 1 p.m. on the Wyoming Capitol steps. The event, organized by the conservative advocacy group…
A Barron's article titled 'Why Apple’s ‘Standard Oil’ Strategy Is Driving the Stock to All-Time Highs' argues that Apple's AI strategy is succeeding despite not delivering its own model, while New Yor…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order on Tuesday imposing a yearlong statewide moratorium on data-center construction, sparking panic in Silicon Valley over the precedent it sets. A…
Moonshot's new Kimi K3 model has sparked panic in Washington over China erasing America's AI lead, but the model is not at the frontier and lacks dangerous cyber capabilities, according to the company…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order imposing the nation's first moratorium on new hyperscale data centers for up to one year, halting environmental permits while the state develop…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed Executive Order No. 62 on July 14, enacting a one-year moratorium on discretionary environmental permitting for new data centers with a power demand of 50 megawat…