How Business Insider investigated the true cost of data centers
How Business Insider calculated data centers' true cost, from their electricity and water use to their impact on the environment and public health.
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An FCC ruling has cut prison phone bills in half, disrupting the correctional telecommunications industry
The FCC adopted new rules that force prisons and jails to cap the cost of phone calls for incarcerated people and eliminate all corporate kickbacks.
Donald Trump spent over $52 million in PAC donor money on legal fees last year. Here's where it all went.
Donald Trump spent over $50 million in PAC donor money on legal fees in 2023. The vast majority went to firms working on his personal legal problems.
Academic celebrity Neri Oxman plagiarized from Wikipedia, scholars, a textbook, and other sources without any attribution
A review of Neri Oxman's work found many instances of outright plagiarism — including directly from Wikipedia.
From UCLA to UNC, emails show university heads frustrated by demands to pick a side after Hamas attacks
Newly released internal emails show public-university leaders privately struggling on how to respond to October 7 Hamas attacks.
The Fulton County Jail where Trump will be booked has seen 23 deaths in custody in less than 4 years
The Fulton County Jail's conditions are notoriously filthy. LaShawn Thompson was 1 of 23 inmates to die there in the last three years, records show.
Jail staff knew Lashawn Thompson's cell was full of filth, records show, but no one saved him before his family says he was 'eaten alive' by bugs
Fulton County Jail staff raised concerns over Lashawn Thompson's cell conditions and his health before his death, records show.
Exclusive: Irvo Otieno's death was part of a pattern of patient abuse at a Virginia psychiatric hospital, records show
Records from the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health show that there is a history of abuse and neglect and the hospital where Irvo Otieno died.
Preston Hemphill, white cop fired as part of Tyre Nichols' arrest, was once praised for his ability to 'extinguish a volatile situation'
Preston Hemphill's supervisors praised his honesty and reliability in performance reviews, despite a few mishaps with department equipment.
Desmond Mills Jr., one of the Memphis police officers who beat Tyre Nichols, previously failed to report his role in a different violent incident
Mills, an ex-Memphis officer now charged in Tyre Nichols' beating death, was reprimanded for failing to report his use of physical force.
Two years before beating Tyre Nichols, a Memphis police officer didn't report that a colleague ripped a woman out of her car and dislocated her shoulder just for laughing
Demetrius Haley, who is now charged with Nichols' murder, received a written reprimand in November 2021 for failing to report the use of force.
53 years after Stonewall, police dealings with transgender people are still poisoned by abuse and disrespect
The police once raided gay bars and arrested transgender people for cross-dressing. Today, misgendering and harassment are still routine.
The Colorado shooting suspect wasn't deterred by the state's red flag laws. Here are 10 times mass shooters slipped through the cracks of their state's red flag laws
Some mass shooters with a history of mental health illness or run-ins with law enforcement have bought guns despite being in a state with red flag laws.
New York state is investigating Getir's employment practices as the rapid-delivery startup's employees say the company shorted their paychecks and paid workers under the table
The rapid-delivery startup Getir is under investigation by the New York State Department of Labor, the agency told Insider.