Multiple reports show the data centers used to store, train and operate AI models use significant amounts of energy and water, with a rippling impact on the environment and public health. According to ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Utility regulators in Texas will start asking data centers and crypto-mining operations statewide within a narrow timeframe to share information about how much water they’re using and ...

File - In this Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, photo, a woman stands at her well at her property on the outskirts of The Dalles, Oregon. She said the water table that her well draws from dropped 15 feet in the ...

Bitcoin’s most recent halving took place in 2024, cutting the reward miners receive for each new block (David Pereiras/The Noun Project) While today’s data center conversation revolves around AI, ...

Tech companies are building data centers as quickly as possible to run AI. These facilities are controviersial because they use copious amounts of electricity and might tax an electrical grid that in ...

Organizations have a wealth of unstructured data that most AI models can’t yet read. Preparing and contextualizing this data is essential for moving from AI experiments to measurable results. In ...

ESG researcher Daniel Batten says peer-reviewed studies challenge claims that Bitcoin mining destabilizes power grids or raises electricity costs. Bitcoin’s environmental impact remains contested as ...

If you’re going online to buy some last-minute gifts this holiday season, there’s a chance the price you pay will be influenced by what’s known as “surveillance pricing.” Some retailers are using ...

Fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded. Experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think. When I called him to talk more about AI and water, Masley emphasized that he’s ...

Those pushing for a controversial new AI data center in Chandler — a cohort that includes paid not-technically-a-lobbyist Kyrsten Sinema — have made big promises about how it would save the city water ...

When the Coalition of Communities of Color (CCC) began a multi-year collaboration with the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), they worked together to modernize a critical public health information source: ...