Merchants have become increasingly skilled at using consumers’ personal data, including their online shopping habits and smartphone use, to calculate an individual’s tolerance for higher prices. Now ...

Data centers, the gigantic buildings that house the computing power behind the artificial intelligence boom, are wildly unpopular. A recent Gallup poll found that 7 in 10 Americans oppose one being ...

Mr. Slaiman is the political coordinator of I.B.E.W. Local 26, which represents electrical workers in the Washington, D.C., area. Data centers aren’t winning many popularity contests. At least 15 ...

With opposition to the centers mounting, many Democrats and a growing number of Republicans are campaigning against them. By Shane Goldmacher Shane Goldmacher is a national political correspondent. He ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced new stringent regulations on data centers on Tuesday, reversing some of his past policies while embracing more rigorous reviews of the projects that have ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro signed an executive order Tuesday placing strict guardrails on new data centers, joining several states that are moving to limit the facilities fueling artificial ...

Sen. Jon Husted once promoted data centers as all upside for his state of Ohio. “Data centers are essential to our digital lives,” the Republican said in 2024, praising a planned Google project that ...

Leeron is a New York-based writer who specializes in covering technology for small and mid-sized businesses. Her work has been featured in publications including Bankrate, Quartz, the Village Voice, ...