In spring 2026, social media users spread a rumor that a new data center in Utah would use about 16 billion gallons of water a year and that the center would be 2.7 times the size of Manhattan. Utah ...

EU eyes minimum efficiency rules for data centres Capacity set to double by 2030, lifting power demand Sustainability label planned amid energy concerns BRUSSELS, June 3 (Reuters) - The European Union ...

OpenAI, Oracle and Related Digital discuss the Stargate Michigan buildout, AI infrastructure, jobs and community plans.

In a slightly funny twist, it’s been highlighted that Google’s AI Overviews currently break when you use words such as “disregard.” AI Overviews are designed to summarize results in Google Search, but ...

California's almond farms consume 4.2 billion gallons of waters per day, according to Reason's Christian Britschgi. Data centers consume just 46 million gallons per day. Those numbers will certainly ...

As global temperatures rise, data centers for artificial intelligence are creating “heat islands” that could have significant impacts on communities and their surrounding environments in the years to ...

A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...

Analyzed 3 years of simulated hospital records across 4 relational tables (1,000+ rows) using Oracle SQL Developer. Built an ERD from scratch, established PK/FK relationships, and wrote queries to ...

Amazon's AI boom is creating a new kind of mess: a growing bloat of internal tools and duplicated data. Some teams are rapidly building their own AI-powered applications to automate workflows and ...

The US federal government’s central energy information agency is planning to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use, according to a letter seen by WIRED.

CINCINNATI—Late at night, or when her 18-month-old daughter is napping, Jessica Sharp logs onto Chat GPT and asks it to help her in her fight to stop a data center from being built just steps away ...

Data centers have been on the receiving end of increasing public scrutiny, with moratoriums and local protests calling attention to water shortages, higher electricity prices, and deteriorating air ...