GeekWire

Microsoft says its data centers use 90% less water than its earliest facilities as public concern grows

Microsoft announced Wednesday that over the past two decades, it has become dramatically more efficient in its use of water to cool data centers, slashing its consumption rate by 90% compared to ...
Wall Street Journal

AI Data Centers Use Far More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report

Microsoft MSFT0.19%increase; up pointing triangle, Google and Amazon AMZN-0.69%decrease; down pointing triangle are among the tech companies spending an estimated $1 trillion on AI infrastructure this ...
TechCrunch

Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that’s not the same as fixing AI’s water problem

Nvidia just announced a warm-water cooling system that it says can dramatically reduce the amount of water a data center uses — eliminating “pretty much all water usage” inside the data center, ...
Frederick News-Post

UPDATE: Maryland Supreme Court rules against data center zone referendum

ANNAPOLIS — The Supreme Court of Maryland on Tuesday upheld a judge's ruling that a referendum on the 2,615-acre data center zone near Adamstown cannot be placed on the November general election ...
The Virginian-Pilot

Goochland to weigh 900-megawatt data center campus under new tech zone

Goochland County will consider its first major data center proposal under its new Technology Overlay District. The 900-megawatt, 872-acre campus would rank among the largest energy-intensive ...
Lexington Herald Leader

Proposed rules would put major limits on data centers in Lexington. Here’s what’s in them

Rows of servers fill Data Hall B at the Facebook’s Fort Worth Data Center in Texas. A Virginia company plans a large-scale data center in Louisville, the first in Kentucky. Paul Moseley Fort Worth ...
Bloomberg L.P.

ByteDance Picks Brazil for Its Largest Data Center Outside China

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Yahoo

Data Center Referendum challengers ask state Supreme Court to uphold ballot denial

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The challengers of a data center zone referendum effort in Frederick County have filed briefs asking the Supreme Court of Maryland ...
FOX5 Las Vegas

New Nevada laws on school zones, student phone use take effect July 1

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Two new Nevada laws aimed at improving safety and focus in and around schools took effect Wednesday, ahead of the start of the new school year. A bill passed during the last ...
CNET

You Need to Start Using Your Security Camera Privacy Zones. Here's How to Do It

Privacy zone technology has a dozen benefits for home security. My guide will show you how to set it up. Tyler Lacoma Editor / Home Security and Smart Home Tyler has ...
LancasterOnline

Here’s where data centers would be allowed under Lancaster city's proposed rules

Lancaster currently has little control over where data centers can locate in the city, but that would change under new rules now expected to be approved in July. A small industrial zoning district in ...