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The Springdale Borough Council voted 5-2 Tuesday night to approve a proposed data center at the former Cheswick coal plant site, even after a dozen residents spoke in opposition of the center. -
The bipartisan bill would create a national network of six remotely accessible programmable cloud laboratories for academic research, led by the National Science Foundation.
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The nonprofit, launched in 2018, has helped startups gain footing and funding in government technology. The founders will continue work with CivStart Ventures, a public-sector “matchmaking” service.
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A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers and advocates in Maryland is worried that one of the governor’s recent vetoes — the Data Center Impact Analysis and Report bill — was a critical mistake.
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A proposed one-year moratorium on large hyperscale data centers in Starke County, Ind., is headed to the County Board of Commissioners there for consideration.
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The Kennewick police are getting several technology upgrades, including new taser weapons, virtual reality training, the AI-powered body cameras, enhanced records management and more.
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The autonomous taxi purveyor plans to add service in Orlando and other central Florida municipalities next year. Its rise has prompted questions about safety and hopes congestion could decline.
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The City Council last week approved the contract with Seattle-based BRINC Drones to provide one drone, a launch platform and software for a new drone-as-a-first responder program.
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Central Florida travelers can expect the use of facial-recognition technology to become even more commonplace in coming years as the airport deploys next-generation biometric systems.
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Virginia utilities should be able to tap the brakes on new data centers and other big power users if they don’t have the power plants on hand to supply them, a General Assembly panel said.
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Police officials say they are hoping to integrate drones and data analysis with pre-existing cameras, gunshot detectors and license plate readers that are already in use through Flock Safety.
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Energized by a donation, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s drone program now handles everything from search and rescue to fighting blazes and setting prescribed burns.
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Developers have bought the former Cheswick Generating Station site in Springdale, Pa., for $14.3 million, with the intent to construct a massive data center, pending a vote by the city council.
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The developers who built the world's largest concentration of data centers in Northern Virginia are eyeing the Richmond area, and counties there are split on whether to resist or embrace them.
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Officials in Sterling Heights say they are taking steps to protect consumers there by regulating virtual currency machines, including cryptocurrency kiosks and bitcoin ATMs.
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A team at the university has received a total of $1.8 million in grant funding to study how virtual reality spaces can assist students with ADHD in completing their homework and staying on task.
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Towne Avenue Elementary in Carson, Calif., in a partnership with Ormat Technologies, now has a hands-on outdoor classroom powered entirely by renewable energy.
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A developer has a plan to build a $4 billion data center in rural Minnesota, along with wind, solar and battery plants the company hopes will attract a wealthy buyer.
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The state lost out on $1 billion through the data center exemption in fiscal 2024, up from $685 million in fiscal 2023, according to the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission.
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One Republican South Carolina lawmaker is leading some pushback against Congress and President Donald Trump’s efforts to stop states from regulating artificial intelligence.
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Scholar Labs, still in its testing phase and not yet available to all users, is designed to interpret intricate research questions and provide relevant material to users from within Google’s database.
