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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Making sure that regular utility customers don’t get stuck bearing the burden of paying to run data centers is a main goal as state regulators consider the ...

WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - U.S. manufacturing activity grew steadily in February, but a gauge of prices at the factory gate raced to a near 3-1/2-year high amid tariffs, highlighting upside risks ...

This is a tutorial for both python and MATLAB users to learn the concepts behind detecting signals through spectrogram cross-correlation. I wrote this as my final project for Geohackweek 2018 at the ...

NEW KENT — Giant data centers are becoming increasingly controversial in Virginia communities amid concerns over their demands for power, water and environmental considerations. However, New Kent ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A bill moving through the Indiana Statehouse is attempting to ease growing tensions between fast-growing tech development and local communities pushing back against it. House Bill 1333 ...

The proposal in front of the Southfield City Council centered on a data center project from Metrobloks, planned for Inkster Road near 11 Mile Road and Interstate 696 on a vacant parcel of roughly a ...

JANESVILLE, Wis. (WKOW) -- Thousands of people in Janesville want to have more say in what happens at the old General Motors/JATCO site. They're filing a petition that could lead to a referendum on ...

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Southfield City Council members will hear public input Monday about a proposed data center that a developer wants to build on Inkster Road. There have been concerns about impacts on the environment ...

FIFE LAKE — The idea of putting a data center in Kalkaska County drew a standing-room only crowd, along with some hecklers, Monday evening at the Garfield Township Hall/Library on West Sharon Road.

MONROVIA, Ind. — Some Morgan County residents say they’re just now catching up to a project that’s already reshaping their small town, a massive Google data center. Last month, county commissioners ...