Seattle has passed a year-long moratorium on the construction of new datacenters. The city council voted unanimously in favor of the temporary ban on Tuesday. A major tech hub whose metro area is home to Amazon and Microsoft, Seattle is the largest US city to have passed such a moratorium as the backlash against AI...

IN SUMMARY Four facilities in California store equal or greater amounts of methyl methacrylate, the chemical that nearly caused an explosion in Garden Grove. Despite the risks, the facilities aren’t required by state or federal law to have an emergency plan . Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit newsroom devoted solely to covering issues that...

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held in Clinton on Tuesday to celebrate a billion-dollar data center project.