Concern over AI and misgivings about data center construction helped drive votes for change in the midterm election — and have fueled stock market volatility that experts say is likely to continue. Investors are worried that the political shift in Congress could slow the buildout of data centers that power AI, potentially throttling one of the economy’s…
Dozens of people were arrested at a protest outside the U.S. Embassy in London on Saturday in support of the proscribed group Palestine Action, police said. London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement that 48 people had been arrested and the majority of the arrests were related to individuals expressing support for a proscribed organization….
Japan launched an ambitious $350 million mission to Mars on Monday to study the red planet’s two moons in unprecedented detail, dropping a small rover on the largest — Phobos — before the mothership touches down to robotically collect soil samples for return to Earth. The primary goal of the Martian Moons Exploration mission, or…
California voters next month will decide on whether to tax billionaire wealth, a proposal designed to generate billions of dollars to shore up the state’s healthcare system. But Stanford economists are now cautioning that the tax could backfire, leaving the state with less in tax revenue than before. Seven billionaires have already publicly moved out…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket boosted an unpiloted Dragon cargo ship into orbit Tuesday, setting up a rendezvous with the International Space Station early Thursday to deliver more than 6,300 pounds of research materials, spare parts and crew supplies. Also on board are two new roll-out solar array blankets, the final sets in a major…
The corporate technology giants building data centers to power the artificial intelligence boom are changing America’s natural landscape. Although data centers long predate generative AI, hundreds of massive, or “hyperscale,” facilities are now sprouting up around the country. Many of these data centers are going up in areas that were once farmland or desert, according…
SpaceX launched the company’s Super Heavy-Starship on its first flight to orbit Monday, a major step toward perfecting the world’s most powerful rocket for commercial flights and NASA moon missions. The Starship upper stage lost an engine during ascent, but after some discussion, flight controllers cleared it to continue on to orbit. With 13 suborbital…
When Cody Turcotte arrived to fight a wildfire scorching homes in Spokane, Washington, last month, there weren’t enough people at the scene to control it. His team of five engines joined just two others that had been battling the blaze alone for hours, as its flames rapidly spread. “You’re getting embers casting down on the…
Video shows flames shooting from plane engine minutes after takeoff – CBS News Watch CBS News Passengers settling in for a flight to Mexico this week saw flames shooting from one of the plane’s engines just minutes after takeoff. Kris Van Cleave has new video. Source link
A Virginia state agency has fined a data center nearly $2.5 million for exceeding emissions limits last year, the state’s largest civil penalty against a data center to date. The notice published online details an event in June of 2025 when the Microsoft facility in Leesburg, Virginia, reported a failure of an electrical substation and…
