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AI & Tech

Meta Launches New AI Infrastructure Initiative

Meta has launched **Meta Compute**, a major initiative to build a world-class AI infrastructure, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls a…

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Artificial Intelligence

Communities Are Beating Back Data Centers

A nationwide, bipartisan grassroots movement is uniting against massive data center expansion, primarily due to soaring electricity demands and significant…

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AI & Tech

AI Access: A Civil Right for All Ages?

The rapid growth of AI is creating a critical infrastructure gap, threatening equitable access and security, which a new analysis…

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BigTech Companies

Lawmakers Probe Data Centers’ Impact on Rising Power Bills

U.S. senators are investigating major tech and data center firms, alleging their soaring energy demands force utilities to build expensive…

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AI & Tech

2025: The Year AI Hype Met Reality and GPS Jamming Fights Back

Lawmakers are investigating the significant energy and water consumption of AI data centers, questioning the technology's environmental and economic costs.…

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AI & Tech

AI’s 2025 Energy Surge: Water and Power Use Soars

The environmental impact of AI is significant and growing, with its energy use projected to exceed Bitcoin mining and its…

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Artificial Intelligence

Meta’s Massive Solar Buy: 1 GW in a Single Week

Meta has secured nearly one gigawatt of solar power through three agreements, reinforcing solar as a key energy source for…

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Artificial Intelligence

AI’s Unsustainable Resource Demand: NTT DATA’s Urgent Solutions

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence carries a significant environmental cost, primarily due to high electricity consumption in data centers,…

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AI & Tech

The Dirty Secret Behind Your AI Tools

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is driving increased natural gas extraction, as tech companies build energy-intensive data centers near…

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AI & Tech

AI’s Energy Crisis: Is It Really That Bad?

The rapid expansion of AI is straining US power grids, driving up electricity demand and prompting utilities to fast-track new…

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Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI and Nvidia’s $100B AI Plan Needs Power of 10 Nuclear Reactors

OpenAI and Nvidia have formed a partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems, backed by up to $100 billion,…

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Artificial Intelligence

Big Tech Eyes Data Centers in Orbit

Data centers, especially those for AI, are rapidly increasing energy consumption and emissions, threatening climate goals and prompting consideration of…

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AI & Tech

AI’s Energy Future: The Download

AI's rapid growth is significantly increasing global electricity demand, largely due to surging data center energy consumption. Despite its high…

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AI & Tech

Google’s AI Energy Crisis & The Truth Behind the Hype

The expansion of AI infrastructure is boosting the U.S. economy by driving investments in hardware, creating jobs, and stimulating activity…

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Artificial Intelligence

Google’s AI Energy Use: The Unanswered Questions

Google refuses to disclose its total AI energy consumption, citing it as too abstract and variable, and instead focuses on…

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AI & Tech

3 Ways to Tackle AI’s Soaring Energy Demands (Without Quitting Chatbots)

AI's rapid growth is driving high energy and water consumption, straining resources and raising sustainability concerns. Data centers, essential for…

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AI & Tech

Google Reveals AI’s Energy Cost Per Prompt for the First Time

Google has disclosed detailed energy consumption data per AI prompt, revealing that its custom TPUs account for only 58% of…

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AI & Tech

5 Must-Know AI Facts You Can’t Miss

AI's rapid advancement is accompanied by significant misunderstandings about its energy consumption, inner workings, and true capabilities, shaping both its…

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Artificial Intelligence

Meta’s 5GW AI Data Center: Zuckerberg Reveals Ambitious Plan

Meta is launching two advanced AI data centers, Hyperion (5 gigawatts) in Louisiana and Prometheus (1 gigawatt) in Ohio, to…

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AI & Tech

UK’s AI Boom Risks Climate Goals, Report Warns

The UK's AI expansion could increase the tech sector's energy consumption 25-fold by 2040, threatening its net-zero climate targets. Data…

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