KXAN

Texas regulators will ask data centers to begin reporting their water usage

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Utility regulators in Texas will start asking data centers and crypto-mining operations statewide within a narrow timeframe to share information about how much water they’re using and ...
Houston Public Media

ERCOT to update planning process for connecting data centers, other large loads to Texas power grid

The control room at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas on May 15, 2018. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, is changing the way it evaluates its transmission capacity to ...
PC Gamer

Genshin Impact fan wiki operator may be having second thoughts about datamining after Cognosphere unleashes the lawyers, says it 'will only update live game data in the future'

Cognosphere, better known as MiHoYo, sued the operator of the HomDGCat wiki after multiple requests to take it down were rebuffed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
CNET

Starlink Is Using Your Personal Data to Train AI. Here’s How to Opt Out

Starlink says it may also share personal data with partners to help it "develop AI-enabled tools that improve your customer experience.” Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering home technology, ...
The News-Gazette

Update: Participants sought for task force on data center regulations

The University of Illinois’ National Petascale Computing Facility, 1725 S. Oak St., Champaign, is an 88,000-square-foot facility housing computing, networking and data systems, including the ...
WDBJ

Virginia lawmakers look to address data center water use

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Virginia lawmakers are considering legislation to limit water consumption by data centers. It comes as Google plans to draw an estimated 8 million gallons per day from Carvins ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

Vibe-Coded Moltbook Exposes User Data, API Keys and More

A self-styled social networking platform built for AI agents contained a misconfigured database which allowed full read and write access to all data, security researchers have revealed. Moltbook was ...
TechSpot

Your ancient iPhone 5s just got an update so it can keep using iMessage

What just happened? Apple quietly revisited its oldest mobile operating systems this week, extending support for devices long considered obsolete. The company issued new patches for iOS 12.5.8, iOS 15 ...
Wired

TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. It's easy to ...
Reuters

Microsoft rolls out initiative to limit data-center power costs, water use impact

Jan 13 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab on Tuesday unveiled an initiative to curb water usage at its U.S. data centers and limit the impact on the general population from any potential ...
Reason

Data Centers Use Lots of Electricity. This Bill Would Let Them Go Off the Grid.

Tech companies are building data centers as quickly as possible to run AI. These facilities are controviersial because they use copious amounts of electricity and might tax an electrical grid that in ...