External data should be treated as hostile until it has been checked, constrained, and transformed for the specific place it will be used. That applies whether the data comes from a browser form, a ...

In Edmonton and elsewhere, opponents are lashing out against data centres, but they are no worse for the environment than factories or industrial farms There’s a good chance you came across this ...

China is exporting more than A.I. models. It wants its data to influence the world’s chatbots, raising fears that Beijing’s narratives will spread with the technology. By David Pierson and Berry Wang ...

Big Tech has failed to win over Americans on its rapid build-out of data centers – and souring public opinion on the power-hungry sites could play a critical role in midterm elections across the ...

After its cloud storage provider went defunct, a PBS affiliate decided to sue a data center provider to regain access to 50TB of TV shows, videos, and other data dating back 70 years. As reported this ...

That public case arrives at a sensitive moment. Meta Platforms Inc.’s $13 billion AI data centre in Sturgeon County is already under construction, and a recent protest in Morinville brought concerns ...

Policymakers around the country are maneuvering to ensure that tech giants aren’t the only ones who stand to benefit. Credit...Nicolas Ortega Supported by By Tony Romm Reporting from Washington In a ...

An steadfast “country hick” farmer offered a terse six-word response to an AI company hoping to build a data center on her Kentucky property in exchange for millions of dollars — “Kick rocks and don’t ...

Tech Goliaths are scrambling to build as much AI computing capacity as they possibly can, come hell or low water. One of the dominant players in the space, Amazon Web Services, has its heart set on an ...

Energy companies in the country’s largest oil field have a plan to turn shrub-covered dirt into gold. It has nothing to do with oil—and everything to do with the data-center boom.