As a data center proposal looms in part of Mifflin County, signs in opposition are aplenty. The development is proposed for a ...

Avista says due to community concern over the potential data center, it will pause all negotiations and take additional time ...

In many respects, data has become a new layer of infrastructure that underpins both economic activity and institutional ...

AI systems require large amounts of user data to function, but privacy laws limit how it can be stored and where it can be ...

At the start of 2025, Stafford County’s economic development director, Liz Barber, predicted that data centers could go from zero to “a lot” within three years’ time. One year later, the county is ...

The world is rapidly advancing towards becoming a fully digital society. At a global level, the amount of data is projected to increase more than fivefold, rising from 33 zettabytes in 2018 to 175 ...

Robert Kirkpatrick is Director of UN Global Pulse, an innovation initiative of the Secretary-General on big data and artificial intelligence. Felicia Vacarelu is the Communications Officer of UN ...