Artificial intelligence is colliding with a hard physical limit: the energy and heat of conventional chips. As models scale ...

Artificial intelligence is driving a construction boom in massive data centers that consume as much electricity as small ...

Having data centers “visible in the night sky at dawn or dusk” presents a problem because some observers “rely on twilight to ...

Many of today’s AI models are all about scale. They gobble up energy and demand constant increases in compute power to stay ...

While AI can help make systems more efficient and reduce waste, its own energy needs are growing rapidly, creating an energy paradox. Beyond energy, AI’s environmental cost includes hardware ...

From massive solar panels to the difficulty of staying cool - not to mention high-energy radiation - there are a lot of ...

Over the past few years, Silicon Valley's AI blitz has created skyrocketing demand for high-end computation in vast dedicated ...

A cybersecurity incident at analytics provider Mixpanel announced just hours before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday weekend could set a new standard for how not to announce a data breach. To recap: In a ...

Dominion Energy says its upcoming $11-a-month rate hike is driven by grid upgrades and inflation — not Virginia’s rapidly growing data-center industry. Critics note that Virginia hosts one of the ...

Silicon Valley entrepreneurs prefer to talk of possibilities rather than obstacles, and of vast revenue opportunities to be seized through sheer force of will. That defiant optimism now faces the ...

According to a new report from the International Energy Agency, the world will spend $580 billion on data centers this year — $40 billion more than will be spent finding new oil supplies. Those ...

The hike in electricity prices is “the tip of the iceberg,” said Marina Domingues, vice president of U.S. New Energies at the Rystad Energy research firm Nathan Howard/Getty As AI-driven data centers ...