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FirstEnergy plans to add capacity for data centers, but shield customers from costs

Responding to a data center boom, Akron-based FirstEnergy says it plans to increase its system peak load by nearly 50% over the next decade without that expansion hitting its customer base in the ...
PC Magazine

Act Fast: How to Claim Up to $7,500 From AT&T's $177M Data Breach Settlement

Were you caught up in either of the two AT&T data breaches from 2019 or 2024? If so, you might be eligible for part of a $177 million settlement. According to court documents, the settlement fund ...
Reuters

a16z-backed data firms Fivetran, dbt Labs to merge in all-stock deal

Merger creates $600-million-revenue data infrastructure company Fivetran CEO Fraser to lead combined company Deal highlights AI-driven data infrastructure demand Oct 13 (Reuters) - Data startups ...
Yahoo

Gavin Newsom blocks effort to make CA data centers disclose water use. Why?

Servers in a data center in 2015. The data-center economy is booming in California, and Gov. Gavin Newsom doesn’t want to slow it down. The governor vetoed a bill on Saturday that would have provided ...
Times Union

Trump directs the Pentagon to use 'all available funds' to ensure troops are paid despite shutdown

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that he has directed the Defense Department to use “all available funds” to ensure U.S. troops are paid Wednesday despite the government shutdown ...
Bleeping Computer

LinkedIn sues ProAPIs for using 1M fake accounts to scrape user data

LinkedIn has filed a lawsuit against Delaware company ProAPIs Inc. and its founder and CTO, Rehmat Alam, for allegedly scraping legitimate data through more than a million fake accounts. ProAPIs ...
The Virginian-Pilot

Newport News opens the door to add data center near Fort Eustis

Newport News leaders highlighted 12 sites throughout the city they plan to target with major projects in the coming years at Thursday’s inaugural Economic Development, Growth and Expansion Summit. One ...
SlashGear

Apple Pay Users Can Now Use Affirm - Here's How To Add It To Your Apple Wallet

Cash used to be king. Now, many of us find it bizarre when someone pays with a Jackson or, in an even more rare sight, pulls out a checkbook. The U.S. began its march to a cashless payment system more ...
Yahoo Finance

Google to Build $4 Billion Arkansas Data Center, Add Jobs

Spread across more than 1,000 acres, the data center will run on power from Entergy Arkansas. The site is expected to fuel Google's growing cloud and AI operations, while also giving a major boost to ...
SFGate

Bay Area university issues warning over man using Meta AI glasses on campus

Authorities at the University of San Francisco are warning students about a man who reportedly used Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses to film students. The private university issued a campuswide alert after ...
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 ...