9+ hour, 27+ min ago   (686+ words) The Fresno City Council voted 7-0 Thursday to begin drafting a citywide data center prohibition, adding requirements to notify councilmembers of applications and explicitly cover land later annexed into the city. The vote advances the proposed measure from Councilmember Nick Richardson....

1+ hour, 53+ min ago   (325+ words) The AI search company's new embedding models and serving engine tackle the economics of running hundreds of millions of queries per month. Perplexity AI logo, trademark of Perplexity AI, Inc.; logo file public domain on Wikimedia Commons (recolored to brand…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (22+ words) The microstate is still smaller than Meta's Hyperion data center campus, which is expected to consume up to 5 gigawatts by 2030....

2+ hour, 37+ min ago   (225+ words) A web search fails. You retry it. It fails again, same way. That loop wastes turns and gets nothing done, so I built a skill that skips the retry and moves on instead. Unblock is a Claude Code skill for…...

2+ hour, 53+ min ago   (47+ words) Walter Isaacson, Tulane history professor, joins 'Closing Bell' to talk the growing backlash against AI data centers. Got a confidential news tip? We want to hear from you. Sign up for free... Data center backlash is 'proxy' for discomfort toward…...

2+ hour, 48+ min ago   (1043+ words) Backlinks may impact visibility, authority, and referrals. However, obtaining a backlink is not just finding a place that would publish a link. It involves finding a proper publication, creating something useful for the audience and giving reasons to make a…...

4+ hour, 43+ min ago   (326+ words) OPINION: From rising utility bills and alarming water use to air pollution, AI data centers face backlash for plenty of reasons. It feels like the United States gets more polarized every year, yet one issue has surprisingly united people of…...

17+ hour, 10+ min ago   (731+ words) Fresno will have to wait several more months before the city can finalize a proposed 10-year moratorium on data centers. City officials voted 7-0 Thursday to start the process to make an amendment to the city municipal code to ban “AI…...

3+ hour, 22+ min ago   (540+ words) With South Africa positioning itself as Africa’s main data hub and U.S. technology companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Equinix increasingly setting up digital infrastructure in the country, civil society organizations have raised the alarm about the lack of transparency around…...

4+ hour, 10+ min ago   (40+ words) Former North Dakota Senator Heidi Heitkamp and The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation’s Daniel Castro join 'Power Lunch' to discuss the backlash and support for and around data centers. Experts debate data center backlash, moratoriums and local tax benefits...