In this episode of "Uncanny Valley," we discuss the economics and environmental impacts of energy-hungry data centers and ...

The industry believes AI will work its way into every corner of our lives, and so needs to build sufficient capacity to address that anticipated demand. But the hardware used to make AI work is so ...

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline As data centers upend electric grids, the largest operator in ...

The ginormous LED screen flashed as dignitaries celebrated inside a bare industrial warehouse serving as New Albany, Ohio's latest data center. "Water is for streams, not streaming," it beamed to ...

As central Ohio's data center industry keeps booming, critics often lament that the gigantic server warehouses directly employ only several dozen people. But while the number of employees collecting a ...

RICHMOND, Va.—You might think the state that is the undisputed epicenter of global internet traffic has a leg up on managing the challenges of the artificial intelligence arms race. So far, it’s not ...

Nehemiah Emerson, critical facilities operations manager for NTT Global Data Centers, speaks about the electrical plant at the NTT Data campus in Garland, June 23, 2025. Tom Fox Dallas-Fort Worth is ...

The Age of AI will rely on massive volumes of data that can be easily stored and retrieved—and bioscience may have an ingenious solution. A scientist examines a DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) profile on ...

BISMARCK — The Hoover dam, 3.3 million horsepower or nearly 5 million solar panels — that's the amount of power generation a handful of hyperscale data centers in North Dakota will be guzzling within ...

And that computing power has a big environmental footprint. A typical AI data center uses as much electricity as 100,000 ...