Across Big Tech, companies are tightening worker oversight amid layoffs, AI-driven job anxiety, and cuts to entry-level roles. If 2025 was about bosses calling on workers to be hardcore, 2026 is about making sure they actually do it.

The Trump administration is urging PJM Interconnection to require tech companies to fund new electricity generation.

Trump administration urges emergency power auction to make tech giants pay for soaring data center electricity costs affecting millions of customers.

Silicon Valley has a new mantra, and it's all about employees proving their worth.

For most Big Tech stocks, forward price/earnings ratios have declined recently, and it is not only because share prices have fallen.

President Donald Trump announced on Monday that his administration is working with major U.S. tech companies, particularly Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), to prevent Americans from bearing the brunt of data center power consumption.

Energy regulators and advocates are cautiously optimistic about Microsoft's promise to "pay its own way" for the power needed to serve its AI footprint.

Whitehouse and Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), the Energy and Natural Resources ranking member, have been working with Environment and Public Works Chair Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Energy and Natural Resources Chair Mike Lee (R-Utah).

Data Center Watch, a project of 10a Labs, an AI security consultancy, said it is seeing a sharp escalation in community, political and regulatory disruptions to data center development.

Bill Gates recently made headlines by suggesting that climate change is no longer a priority, but the American public begs to differ. No matter how much tech billionaires try to distract us, increasing power costs and our worsening climate are directly connected to corporations like Google,

In Silicon Valley's new productivity regime, it is no longer enough to hit your goals. You now have to document, quantify, and defend every step that got you there. Across the largest platforms, performance systems are being rebuilt so that employees live in a permanent state of audit,

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is scrutinizing big tech firms that hire employees of a startup instead of buying the companies outright, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing the agency's Chairman Andrew Ferguson.