A protester holds a sign while waiting for the March for Water and a Sustainable Future to begin on Aug. 19, 2025. Activists marched from San Marcos City Park to City Hall to protest proposed data ...

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 ...

A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built. An extensive new analysis looks ...

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 ...

Big Tech companies use secrecy agreements with local governments to keep communities from knowing who is building in their backyards. On a March afternoon in Mason County, Kentucky, Dr. Timothy ...

According to a new report from the International Energy Agency, the world will spend $580 billion on data centers this year — $40 billion more than will be spent finding new oil supplies. Those ...

Data centers are notoriously thirsty. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found that, in 2023, the facilities consumed roughly 17 billion gallons of water for their operations in ...