Ted Smith, vice president of engineering and operations at Sioux Valley Energy, explains how much electricity data centers ...

OpenAI's Sam Altman says AI's water concerns are "totally fake." The truth about AI's impact on natural resources is more complicated.

There are 570 data centers in the state of Virginia, the majority of which are in the northern portion of the state often ...

Our AI-optimized data centers are an investment in the future of the US economy, and we’re committed to supporting the communities where we have data centers through responsible energy use, job ...

The Atlantic recently examined the growing environmental toll of artificial intelligence data centers, joining a wave of scrutiny over how the industry’s electricity appetite is straining power grids ...

Readers sent more than 300 questions on data centers. Here we examine the environmental impact of projects under construction or proposed in Wisconsin ...

A new report from the climate advocacy nonprofit Food and Water Watch says artificial intelligence data centers across the ...

Researchers have proposed a zeolite-based “thermal battery” system that could cut the electricity data centers spend on cooling by up to 86%, according to a preprint published on ChemRxiv. The finding ...

Tech companies pledge to protect citizens from impact, costs of more data centers. Environmentalists are skeptical.

Researchers expect tech to be cheaper to manufacture and be more durable as it is less sensitive to environmental factors ...

The newly introduced POWER Act seeks to regulate new data centers built in Illinois and address concerns about their effects ...

Last month, Senators Elizabeth Warren, Chris Van Hollen, and Richard Blumenthal sent an angry letter to the CEOs of leading tech companies, singling out data centers for climbing energy bills. They ...