The AI sector absorbs resources that could fuel growth elsewhere. Economics explains why business activity would not collapse ...

Rising electricity prices are being pinned on data centers, but demand isn’t what makes power expensive. A simple story has taken hold in American politics: Big Tech is consuming vast amounts of ...

Affordability is the key buzzword ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, and no cost-of-living concern has risen to the top of ...

As a country, we are spending more to get data centers up and running than we spent to build the entire interstate highway system. (Yes, that’s inflation-adjusted.) With tech companies spending ...

"DTE models show that a new large data center will contribute approximately $300 million annually to improving DTE's electric ...

Data centers fueling the AI boom are driving up the nation’s demand for electricity — and possibly your utility bill along with it. There are several reasons power is getting more expensive in the US.

US households have seen their electricity costs rise over the past year, with many blaming the energy demands of AI.

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley is on a mission. He’s out to protect residential electric consumers from predatory price increases driven by the skyrocketing demand for electricity from the burgeoning ...

Megawatts are still trading hands, and the AI trade is very much alive, according to investment banker Joe Nardini, as miners ...

Phones and other tech products will be affected by shortages, too—with experts predicting "shrinkflation" in consumer ...

Cities’ rush to capitalize on the AI boom means some projects are moving forward despite findings of negative impacts.

The truth is more nuanced. To paraphrase, Robert Oppenheimer, a father of the first nuclear bomb, when dealing with advanced science, observed that risk cannot be completely eliminated. Still, the ...