The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming ...

Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually ...

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WASHINGTON — Blue Origin is the latest company to propose an orbital data center system, filing plans for a constellation of up to 51,600 satellites. In a March 19 filing with the Federal ...

Science in the modern era is increasingly reliant on enormous datasets and automated analysis. In astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) – a ten-year survey ...

A U.S. judge in Boston on Friday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from ordering colleges to collect and turn over detailed data on race and student admissions, delivering a near-term ...

A methodological change contributed to a better-than-expected inflation report, prompting questions from some economists. By Ben Casselman An obscure methodological change lowered a key measure of ...

As we drove through southwest Memphis, KeShaun Pearson told me to keep my window down—our destination was best tasted, not viewed. Along the way, we passed an abandoned coal plant to our right, then ...

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Quanta Services has made strategic acquisitions to capitalize on the data center infrastructure boom. Vertiv has experienced record growth in organic orders and has developed prefabricated ...

Oracle Corp. and OpenAI have scrapped plans to expand a flagship artificial intelligence data center in Texas after negotiations dragged over financing and OpenAI’s changing needs. The collapsed talks ...

The power crunch for AI data centers has gotten so severe that people — not just Elon Musk — are talking about launching servers into space so they can access solar power 24/7. One startup thinks the ...