People have found plenty to dislike about data centers, from their massive energy and water usage to their potential to drive up the cost of living in surrounding areas. But perhaps the biggest ...

O’Leary compared data centre water use to golf courses. Golf uses 4.6x more today, but data centre demand could overtake it by 2028 on current projections. Kevin O’Leary is making the golf course ...

As Alabama communities weigh proposals for new data centers, concerns about water consumption have become a flashpoint. Yet another major water user often escapes scrutiny: golf courses. A comparison ...

Microsoft MSFT1.68%increase; up pointing triangle, Google and Amazon AMZN 3.97%increase; up pointing triangle are among the tech companies spending an estimated $1 trillion on AI infrastructure this ...

As triple-digit temperatures engulf much of the United States, the Trump administration wants grid managers to require the use of backup power that often goes unused. By Ivan Penn and Hilary Howard As ...

Microsoft announced Wednesday that over the past two decades, it has become dramatically more efficient in its use of water to cool data centers, slashing its consumption rate by 90% compared to ...

Nvidia just announced a warm-water cooling system that it says can dramatically reduce the amount of water a data center uses — eliminating “pretty much all water usage” inside the data center, ...

If you hang out in any even vaguely AI-skeptical parts of the Internet, you’ve probably stumbled on plenty of memes and posts premised on data centers’ insatiable thirst for water to power evaporative ...

Between rising healthcare costs and increased wait times to schedule doctor’s appointments, more patients are turning to AI tools to get medical advice quickly and for free. But is the emerging ...

California's almond farms consume 4.2 billion gallons of waters per day, according to Reason's Christian Britschgi. Data centers consume just 46 million gallons per day. Those numbers will certainly ...

Not long ago, creating a solid presentation, a clean infographic, or a sharp data visualization meant you either knew your way around design software or you paid someone who did. That has changed, ...

Pangenomes, which capture the genetic diversity of populations more comprehensively than traditional linear genomes, are foundational to understanding genetic variation in species. While calculating ...