Abstract: With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and big data technologies, the continuous expansion of the scale of data centers has led to a significant increase in power load and ...

AI data centers require incredible amounts of energy to run. NPR's Planet Money investigates how that demand for power might affect your electric bills. Tech companies invested hundreds of billions of ...

A new study estimates the environmental impact of AI in 2025 and calls for more transparency from companies on their pollution and water consumption. A new study estimates the environmental impact of ...

This coal plant in central Pennsylvania, once the largest in the state, was shuttered in 2023 after powering the region for over 50 years. Earlier this year, wrecking crews blasted the plant’s cooling ...

For decades, demand for electrical power has remained stable. Utilities could count on highly predictable growth patterns to guide their capacity planning. However, the power requirements of AI and ...

Planned data center construction shows no signs of fading, with new additions to require 2.7x — nearly triple — the sector’s current demand for electricity over the next decade, according to a new ...

High-voltage power lines in Florida (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Surging power demand from new data centers is reaching unprecedented — and potentially unrealizable — heights. Over the next five years, U ...

Read More: AI Data Centers Are Sending Consumer Electric Bills Soaring The monitor’s analysis for the first time quantifies the cost of making data centers flexible as a way to extract more use out of ...

COWETA COUNTY, Ga. — Massive data centers proposed for metro Atlanta expect to use millions of gallons of water per day. Some of those data centers are planning to use more water than entire Georgia ...

After posting footage of the real-life Halo M90 top-loading shotgun, viewers asked a simple question: why don’t we use top-loading shotguns in real life? This video digs into that question — examining ...