An AI agent allegedly deleted a startup's production database, causing a huge outage

People are trusting their AI agents with much more important work, but doing so still carries significant risks. Just ask ...
Time

Letting AI Do Your Work Erodes Your Confidence, According to a New Study

As AI becomes a daily work tool, the real risk may not be losing our intelligence—but losing confidence in our own thinking. New research suggests the difference comes down to how actively we engage ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Water use is a key data center issue. This will get you caught up.

Wisconsin is becoming a popular location for data centers due to its climate, water access, and affordable land. The majority of a data center's water footprint comes from the offsite electricity ...
KVUE

'I do not want to live near a data center' | Proposed data center in Hutto draws concerns from residents

HUTTO, Texas — A 40‑acre property in Hutto is drawing heightened attention as city leaders consider a rezoning request that would pave the way for a new data center to be built on the site. The ...
Reuters

Investors press Amazon, Microsoft and Google on water, power use in US data centers

LONDON, April 6 (Reuters) - Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet's Google have each recently abandoned construction of multibillion-dollar data centers over community opposition and now the companies are ...
CNBC

Oracle cutting thousands in latest layoff round as company continues to ramp AI spending

Oracle is conducting a round of layoffs, two people familiar with the move told CNBC. The layoffs were in the thousands, the people said. The software maker has continued to increase spending on data ...
USA Today

Google cuts data center power use to ease strain on US grids

Google has signed agreements with five U.S. electric utilities in states from Arkansas to Minnesota to curtail its electricity use during periods of peak demand, the company said on March 19, in its ...
E&E

What AI data centers do — and don’t do — to electricity prices

Ratepayers are largely stuck in the middle as utilities and regulators work out how best to pay for the nation’s AI infrastructure build-out. The Trump administration and utility industry are sending ...
ZDNet

How to clear your Roku TV cache (and why it's critical to do so)

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...
New Scientist

Start-up is building the first data centre to use human brain cells

Data centres use huge amounts of energy and chips are in high demand – could brain cells be the answer? Australia-based start-up Cortical Labs has announced it is building two “biological” data ...
Futurism

Using AI to Do Your Taxes Is Likely to Backfire Spectacularly

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Tax season, that dreaded ...
Futurism

A Staggering Proportion of High School Kids Are Using AI to Do Their Homework, Which Is Probably Not Going to End Well

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Who ...