AI affects public health via air pollution created as a consequence of operating the data centers used to train and run the technology, researchers at UC Riverside and the California Institute of ...

Minnesota regulators denied Amazon’s request to exempt a data center’s 250 backup generators from a permitting process that ...

Marshall Killingsworth and his family moved to his remote, hilltop property four decades ago. “It's tranquil, it's peaceful. There's nature here by the abundance,” Killingsworth said. However, earlier ...

According to the report, Phoenix is bigger than any of the data-center markets in the Western Hemisphere outside of the U.S.

The talks of a second new xAI data center in Whitehaven have Memphians questioning whether it will affect the environment.

Pollution resulting from America’s ravenous digital demands falls disproportionately on the shoulders of Black households.

Amazon's plans to build a data center near Bendix Woods County Park would impact almost 10 acres of wetlands and more than ...

How to address emissions concerns for power-hungry data centers Data centers are a critical, but often power-hungry, part of the enterprise. But, why exactly do data centers require so much energy?

the health impacts caused by a data center in one region cannot be offset by cleaner air elsewhere," UC Riverside researcher Shaolei Ren told Ars Technica of the findings. AI's air pollution ...

"We're incentivizing data centers to take our power and to not pay much in taxes," said Anne Hedges of the Montana ...

The same is true in Waco and Hillsboro, where a planned data center is calling for 828 megawatts of power per year. That ...