AI is helping employees create new apps and tools faster. That creative explosion comes with downsides. Some are calling this "AI sprawl." Amazon's retail business sees surge in duplicate internal ...

The Treasury Department is pooling information about people who received benefits from pandemic-era relief programs in a new, central database it says will be used to conduct program audits. It’s the ...

Critics say the scope established in the agency’s systems of record notice “is an astonishing and dramatic departure from prior Treasury practice.” Treasury Data Governance The Treasury Department is ...

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming ...

As seen on diginomica passim, the music industry has a complicated relationship with data and AI. While there’s justifiable concern that emerging technology can be used to shortcut the creative ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—State officials’ approval of a $4.5 million tax break for a Northeast Ohio data‑center expansion was met with a chorus of online criticism, given that the project will only create 10 ...

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The physical limits of on-premise storage and compute capacity originally drove the enterprise shift to the cloud, where users have access to “practically infinite” resources, according to Chalan Aras ...

Organizations have a wealth of unstructured data that most AI models can’t yet read. Preparing and contextualizing this data is essential for moving from AI experiments to measurable results. In ...

Washington – New research from the environmental advocacy group Food & Water Watch demonstrates that common claims of robust job creation from the ballooning data center industry are grossly inflated.

For decades the data landscape was relatively static. Relational databases (hello, Oracle!) were the default and dominated, organizing information into familiar columns and rows. That stability eroded ...