In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the economics and environmental impacts of energy-hungry data centers and whether these facilities are sustainable in the age of AI. Tech giants have been ...

Divya Mahajan owns shares in Google, AMD, Microsoft, and Nvidia. She receives funding from Google and AMD. Artificial intelligence is growing fast, and so are the number of computers that power it.

Data centers are a huge burden on natural resources. Some companies think the solution is to send them to space. Reading time 6 minutes The world runs on data. As humanity’s information gets ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) That figure includes the water used to cool the data center’s servers and the water ...

ASHBURN, Va.—Driving up the six-lane Route 28 in Loudoun County, Virginia, there’s a dark blue one on the left. Further up the way in a small clearing of trees, there’s a gray one on the right. Across ...

Throughout several counties in and around Atlanta, contractors are grading soil and importing building materials, and construction crews are hammering away to build warehouses with cooling equipment ...

Google strategically withdrew a proposal to rezone 467 acres of farmland for a data center in Franklin Township at the Sept. 22 City-County Council meeting. The company would have had to wait one year ...