Data centers are expected to use one-fifth of the electricity generated in the U.S. by 2035, four times that of today, according to a new report from BloombergNEF. A surge in AI compute will push data ...

Here's a question you probably didn't expect to read today (or ever): what do AI supercomputers and hot tubs have in common? Sounds like the start of a joke, doesn't it? The truth, however, is that ...

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 ...

With AI straining Earth’s infrastructure, space-tech startup Starcloud is developing orbital data centers designed to meet the world’s growing computing needs. Boy catches piranha at Pennsylvania lake ...

Microsoft MSFT0.03%increase; up pointing triangle, Google and Amazon AMZN 0.82%increase; up pointing triangle are among the tech companies spending an estimated $1 trillion on AI infrastructure this ...

It seems a simple decision — using a fan to cool yourself down amid yet another heat wave. But in the extreme conditions much of the country is currently facing, it may not help as much as you’d think ...

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, ...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory estimated the facilities could use roughly 11.8 percent of U.S. power by the end of the decade. Data centers could more than double their share of U.S. power and ...

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 ...

Wisconsin energy regulators ruled that tech companies must pay the full cost for the massive energy consumption of AI data centers. The new data centers are projected to require an amount of ...

Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...