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A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how. If you’re near Rochester, New York, the ...

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A data center under construction in Loudoun County, Va. (David Kidd/Governing) Headlines have been full of misunderstood and misrepresented claims about data centers. If you only looked at this ...

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Amazon.com Inc. alleges that a Berkshire Hathaway Inc.-owned utility in Oregon is failing to provide sufficient power for four new data center facilities, highlighting the strain rapid expansion of ...

Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. The Common Crawl Foundation is little known outside of Silicon Valley. For more ...