America’s suburban towns are rapidly going gray. What the aging in place trend means for infrastructure, the real estate market and your equity

Many seniors in suburbs are house rich but cash poor, keeping them in aging homes while locking younger homebuyers out of the ...
Forbes

From Collection To Connection: How Energy Utilities Can Become Data Orchestrators

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Abhay Gupta is cofounder and CEO of Bidgely, evolving energy analytics for utilities with ...

How to Edit, Merge, and Split PDFs With Free Online Tools

You don’t need expensive software for basic PDF tasks. In fact, all you need is a handful of free web-based apps.
The Conversation

How much water and power will AI data centres use in Australia? Ironically, we don’t have the data to know

Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...
The Conversation

How Wall Street is shifting electric utilities toward consolidation and profit

A corporate merger that would form the largest electric utility in the United States is underway. It’s just one of many recent utility mergers and acquisitions as electric utilities enter a period of ...
Lifehacker

Split Tunneling Is Your VPN's Most Underrated Feature

VPNs are a fantastic security tool. While they aren't infallible, a properly configured VPN can secure your traffic across apps and websites. But the added network latency can slow down apps that rely ...
Yahoo

Data centers are driving demand for gas from Northwest utilities, reports find

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Electric utilities in Washington and Oregon are turning to gas to meet rapid and growing energy demand from data centers, ...
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7+ phone privacy settings to check and turn off ASAP - to avoid exposing your personal data

Smartphone permissions can quietly invade your privacy. Reviewing app permissions can help prevent data exposure. Check these permissions first, then audit them regularly. Your smartphone, whether you ...
T&D

Utilities, Regulators Grapple With Data Center Growth and Grid Reliability at IEEE PES T&D

The IEEE PES T&D Conference 2026 highlighted how rapid load growth from data centers, electrification, and manufacturing is transforming power system planning, emphasizing infrastructure investment ...
Reuters

EU plans energy standards for data centres amid concerns over soaring power use

EU eyes minimum efficiency rules for data centres Capacity set to double by 2030, lifting power demand Sustainability label planned amid energy concerns BRUSSELS, June 3 (Reuters) - The European Union ...
Snopes.com

Will Utah data center use 16B gallons of water and span almost 3 Manhattans? What to know

In spring 2026, social media users spread a rumor that a new data center in Utah would use about 16 billion gallons of water a year and that the center would be 2.7 times the size of Manhattan. Utah ...