Should researchers still be posting their data openly online? It’s a question being debated by some researchers now that bots are routinely mining open-access databases and scientific publications to ...

These stark findings are detailed in the new report, "Environmental Cost of AI's Energy Use: Carbon, Water and Land Footprints," by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and ...

The scramble to find enough power for artificial intelligence has data center operators looking for any solution. An unexpected one taking root pairs batteries — long seen as a key to adding more ...

Construction has begun on a proposed $10 billion project to create a 4.4-gigawatt natural gas-fueled power plant and hyperscale data centers on a hilltop outside Homer City in Indiana County. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A satellite image of Google's Goodnight data center campus under construction in Armstrong County, Texas. SkyFi via Cleanview A ...

Hundreds of construction workers are on the job around the clock building Georgia's energy future at Plant Yates, where they're expanding a former 1950s coal power plant into a state-of-the-art ...

Documents show that one of Google’s new data centers would be powered by a natural gas plant that emits millions of tons of emissions each year—an increasingly common trend in the industry. A new data ...

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 ...

Meta Platforms Inc. is paying for the construction of seven new natural gas-fired plants to fuel its most power-hungry data center, increasing its reliance on fossil fuels amid a fast-moving ...

Microsoft’s recently announced use of a West Virginia data center that will run entirely on natural gas could cause the company’s emissions to skyrocket by 44%. That’s according to a new report from ...

A California-based company is planning a new type of ranch in the heart of West Texas, measured not in herds of cattle, but in gigawatts of electricity. At the site in Fort Stockton, Pacifico Energy ...

CU Boulder researchers have discovered an appetite-suppressing compound in python blood that helps the snakes consume enormous meals and go months without eating yet remain metabolically healthy. The ...