Microsoft MSFT0.19%increase; up pointing triangle, Google and Amazon AMZN-0.69%decrease; down pointing triangle are among the tech companies spending an estimated $1 trillion on AI infrastructure this ...

Texas is quickly becoming a major hub for the AI boom, but the massive electricity demand tied to that growth is now colliding with rising concerns about the state's power grid, water supplies, and ...

Hydro Ottawa’s CEO says the utility is under “extraordinary pressures” as energy-hungry data centres lead a historic surge in large-scale customers seeking to connect to the power grid. Bryce Conrad ...

Microsoft announced Wednesday that over the past two decades, it has become dramatically more efficient in its use of water to cool data centers, slashing its consumption rate by 90% compared to ...

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, ...

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 ...

Anthropic is changing its data retention policies for its new Mythos-class models. Credit: Nicolas TUCAT / AFP via Getty Images Anthropic just released its most powerful public model yet — Claude ...

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 ...

Nearly all of the 20 state-run health insurance exchanges in the US have added advertising trackers that transmit user activity back to big tech companies, in some cases sending more data than state ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) – State lawmakers advanced a bill aimed at regulating data centers in South Carolina. It’s a topic that has been much debated, including in the Lowcountry. The state senate’s ...