As the demand for artificial intelligence (AI) continues to surge, data centers are exploring innovative solutions to meet ...

Data centers accounted for 4% of total U.S. electricity use in 2024. Their energy demand is expected to more than double by 2030.

Amazon's execs exchanged notes about keeping the masses ignorant about the "true extent" of the amount of water their data ...

The rising energy cost of data centers is a vital test case for how we deal with the broader electrification of the economy. With seemingly no limit to the demand for artificial intelligence, everyone ...

A new twist on a classic material could advance quantum computing and make modern data centers more energy efficient, ...

No wonder Google is desperate for more power: The company’s data centers more than doubled their electricity use in just four years. The eye-popping stat comes from Google’s most recent sustainability ...

AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, research published Thursday in the journal Joule shows. That demand from AI, the research states, could ...

In late July, the Trump administration released its long-awaited AI Action Plan, which includes steps to cut environmental requirements and streamline permitting policies to make it easier to build ...

“People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses,” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, wrote in an aside in a long blog post last week. The average query, Altman wrote, uses 0.34 ...

The universe is approaching the midpoint of its 33-billion-year lifespan, a Cornell physicist calculates with new data from dark-energy observatories. After expanding to its peak size about 11 billion ...

The Department of Energy has told employees to avoid using certain words, including "climate change," "green" and ...