An eastern Oregon city that has for the last decade welcomed some of the largest data centers in the state is fighting Gov. Tina Kotek’s recent order meant to temporarily pause data center development, saying it could cost the city millions in direct financial losses. 

The sheer size of investment in data centers is drawing concern as it surpasses all other historical booms and crowds out other more job-creating ventures. 

If you’ve been sharing big plans to adopt artificial intelligence and related tools at your business with your employees, you could be making them less productive. 

We’re entering a new world of cyberattacks, and Washington isn’t ready.

Photos of clay-like grouted waste at Hanford have raised questions among watchdogs, but federal officials say the material meets applicable transportation safety requirements.

Tri-Cities residents are calling for restrictions on data centers even though no projects have been formally proposed locally, prompting heated discussions at city council meetings.

Columbia Basin College continues to work toward opening a new science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, learning center for all ages after receiving its largest philanthropic gift ever last year. But an opening date has not yet been set.

A team of scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is finding new methods of holding metals together to boost manufacturing efficiency and lower costs, and the technology has already won an award.

A Benton County company has received a $469,000 state grant to advance its research and development of a new means to generate renewable natural gas from carbon dioxide. 

More than 400 Washingtonians across 19 locations took to the streets Oct. 4 to demand a statewide moratorium on data centers.