Hardware purchases and location data: How the FBI says it made an arrest in the DC pipe bomb case, nearly five years later

The quiet calm of a weekday morning in a Woodbridge, Virginia, neighborhood was suddenly interrupted Thursday by a loud siren, two Humvee-style vehicles and a group of SWAT-like figures in camouflage, ...

Man accused of planting pipe bombs before Jan. 6 Capitol attack is charged with explosives offenses

The FBI has arrested a man accused of placing two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic ...
The Conversation

When fake data is a good thing – how synthetic data trains AI to solve real problems

Ambuj Tewari receives funding from NSF and NIH. You’ve just finished a strenuous hike to the top of a mountain. You’re exhausted but elated. The view of the city below is gorgeous, and you want to ...
IEEE

Data-Driven Dimension Reduction for Industrial Load Modeling Using Inverse Optimization

Abstract: The intricate mixed-integer constraints in industrial load models not only pose challenges for their direct integration into economic dispatch or market clearing processes but also render ...
Wired

If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here’s Where They Should Go

A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built. An extensive new analysis looks ...
The New Yorker

Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid

Drive in almost any direction from almost any American city, and soon enough you’ll arrive at a data center—a giant white box rising from graded earth, flanked by generators and fenced like a prison ...
The Washington Post

There’s a reason electricity prices have been rising. And it’s not data centers.

Over the past few months, Americans have looked aghast at their rising electricity bills — in New Jersey, for example, prices have risen 19 percent just in the last year — and found one clear ...
Renewable Energy World

DOE directs FERC to ‘rapidly accelerate’ large load, data center interconnection

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright has directed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to initiate rulemaking procedures with a proposed rule meant to “rapidly accelerate” the ...
SiliconANGLE

From data chaos to AI dominance: NetApp’s strategy for a secure data foundation

Companies are moving toward flexible, secure data foundations that make them more versatile for artificial intelligence. At the same time, there’s a growing focus on stronger security and smarter ...
CNN

Why these companies want to send data centers into space

Advances in artificial intelligence are driving surging demand for data centers. But these warehouse-like facilities, containing computers that process and store data, require a lot of land and huge ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A.I. Is on the Rise, and So Is the Environmental Impact of the Data Centers That Drive It

The demand for data centers is growing faster than our ability to mitigate their skyrocketing economic and environmental costs Amber X. Chen - AAAS Mass Media Fellow As the demand for A.I. increases, ...
Bloomberg L.P.

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills. The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern ...