Carbon credit purchases by Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft skyrocketed in 2023, based on tracked purchases.

For years, we've been told that encryption is the gold standard for digital privacy. If data is encrypted, it is supposed to be locked away from hackers, companies and governments alike. That ...

Three Senate Democrats said Tuesday that they are investigating the impact of data centers on consumer electricity bills amid concerns that the expansion of energy-hungry artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Microsoft Corp. and Meta Platforms Inc. each committed nearly $50 billion in additional data center leases in their most recent quarters, underscoring an escalating bet the tech industry is making on ...

Microsoft is also just one of several large tech firms pursuing new data centers. OpenAI, Elon Musk’s xAI, Google, Amazon, and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, among others, also have them in the works. But ...