An economic sociologist who spent years advising Senator Elizabeth Warren, Owens is righteously angry. “Companies are doing well while many Americans are suffering,” she told me recently over coffee. We spoke about why prices are so high and how we…
The Northern Virginia locality with the most data centers in the commonwealth is set to consider a plan to pause new data center and substation applications for one year. At its meeting Tuesday, Loudoun County’s Board of Supervisors is scheduled…
A federal emergency order aimed at preventing blackouts in the mid-Atlantic is drawing attention to a bigger question: Can the region’s power grid keep up with growing electricity demand? The unusually warm weather earlier this week helped put extra stress…
A well-known, local engineer said he's completely reimagined the concept of data centers — and he said it addresses just about every concern communities have expressed. Opposition to data centers has exploded almost as quickly as the industry itself. Channing Blackwell…
As concerns grow over information overload and how much technology is around us, the D.C. Public Library is stepping in with programs to help people. Chelsea Kirkland is the digital inclusion coordinator with the library system who is behind the effort.
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Demonstrators are urging the D.C. Council to reject legislation allowing robotaxis. News4’s Adam Tuss reports. Union members, cab drivers and religious leaders came together Tuesday to demand the D.C. Council reject legislation that would allow autonomous vehicles to operate in the…
Constellation, the owner of Maryland’s Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant, said Wednesday it plans to move forward with massive upgrades at the facility after signing a 20-year power purchase deal with data center operator Amazon.
They've been popping up along roads, intersections, and businesses for the last few years — many people are pushing back against automated license plate readers, raising concerns about privacy and data collection. Cameras by a company called Flock have been in…
The first thing I found myself wondering about Data After Dark, the “pro–data center party” held Saturday at the tech-bro watering hole Pubkey, was just how much of it was a joke. Public opinion has never been more bent…
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