Data centers are notorious for large amounts of water usage.

These facilities house the servers that process nearly all digital activity, from online shopping and streaming to banking and health care.

AI data centers use large amounts of water for cooling. And many are being built in the drought-stricken Mountain West, ...

And that computing power has a big environmental footprint. A typical AI data center uses as much electricity as 100,000 ...

With the AI boom, construction of new data centers has skyrocketed, and not without consequence — some communities that count ...

As demand for artificial intelligence technology boosts construction and proposed construction of data centers around the world, those computers require not just electricity and land, but also a ...

Data centers are driving up consumers' electricity costs, but experts say energy conservation hacks won't lower bills much.

The oft-cited claim that an LLM query uses 10 times more energy than a Google search comes from a 2023 study by researcher Alex de Vries, backed up in a 2024 Goldman Sachs report . But let’s take a ...

The data center industry is exploding, and server farms are popping up all over the world. As you might’ve guessed, much of ...

Hamilton residents voiced concerns to a planned data center that could, pending several factors including the results of two impact studies and a land sale, be under construction as early as next year ...

WASHINGTON — Story from The Conversation by Peyton McCauley, Water Policy Specialist, Sea Grant UW Water Science-Policy Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Melissa Scanlan, Professor and ...