Dozens of planned gas plants to ​directly power data centers in the United States could emit as much greenhouse gas annually ...

(CBS)– Google says a typical AI query uses five drops of water. OpenAI’s Sam Altman describes a similar amount — about ...

As the world tries to curb human-caused climate change and not run dry of water, every online query is increasing our environmental footprint and exacerbating the problem. Artificial intelligence is ...

Texas has been flooded with data center requests to join its power grid. The state seeks to sort out who actually wants to do business in Texas -- and which projects are purely speculative.

Chevron has entered into a 20-year agreement to provide dedicated electricity to a Microsoft-operated data centre in West Texas, US.

The rise of agentic AI is shifting data centers from GPU-centric number crunching to CPU-driven orchestration, where managing long-running reasoning loops and context is just as important as raw ...

DUBLIN—Big tech built so many data centers in Ireland that the sector uses a fifth of the country’s electricity—more than all of Ireland’s urban homes put together. For much of the past three years, ...

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 ...

A new deal between Google and Voltus will take advantage of flexibility on the grid. Would you take a payment to ramp down your electricity use? Would it change anything if you were doing so to help ...

Energy demand is already straining power grids, and that’s leading AI players to reimagine the data center from the ground up. Today’s newsletter looks at the efficiency drive aiming to shrink the 30% ...

In 2024, a Hydrogen Council industry report observed that investment in hydrogen projects had grown by more than 600% over the trailing-four-year period. "While the global project pipeline has grown ...