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Google has pledged to use only carbon-free sources of electricity to power its operations, a task made more challenging by its breakneck pace of data center growth.
From your laptop to a loud GPU cluster, AI prompts are a mysterious energy drain. Our columnist attempted to trace their journey—and their impact.
The data collected thus far derives from over one million cell phone users in Washington state. It is not clear whether such users are limited to residents of Washington state or include all ...
“We think that wearables are a key to the MAHA agenda of making America healthy again and my vision is that every American is wearing a wearable in four years,” RFK Jr. said.
The largest data centers can guzzle millions of gallons of fresh water a day. Roughly 40% are located in the most water-stressed areas of the country, Business Insider found.
Microsoft operates five data centers in the city. The tech corporation ranked number one for water usage in West Des Moines over a cumulative 12-month period.
Researchers have shown, for the first time, that transmission of ultrastable optical signals from optical clocks across tens of kilometers of deployed multicore fiber is compatible with ...
Your vehicle is designed to operate whether it's hot or cold out, right? So why in the world should you need a special gadget to cool its transmission?
UC San Diego engineers have created a passive evaporative cooling membrane that could dramatically slash energy use in data centers. As demand for AI and cloud computing soars, traditional cooling ...
Microsoft is bringing its science-focused geospatial data platform to the enterprise, ready to provide insights to solution developers and data scientists.
An AI-related provision in the “Big Beautiful Bill” could restrict state-level legislation of energy-hungry data centers—and is raising bipartisan objections across the US.
The latest report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) has examined proposed transmission lines for northern Virginia data centers expected to cost West Virginia ...