In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek app is displayed on an iPhone screen on January 27, 2025 in San Anselmo, California. Newly launched Chinese AI app DeepSeek has surged to number one in Apple's ...
The National Gallery of Art’s latest exhibition, “Beneath the Surface: Mining and American Photography,” lands at a particularly apt moment, its compelling images reminding us how dependent the ...
One of the world’s biggest data center projects was designed to be nearly three times the size of Manhattan, stretching across multiple Utah sites. But intense local backlash in Box Elder County has ...
There's $67 billion in critical minerals in old electronics and mine waste. By some estimates, America has nearly all the rare earth elements it needs through e-waste recycling and mine tailings, ...
Website traffic from AI agents and bots has eclipsed its human-generated counterpart for the first time, according to Cloudflare, an earlier-than-expected milestone that speaks to AI’s rapid advance ...
Keeping security algorithms current is now a lifecycle challenge that spans chip design, manufacturing, deployment, and long-term maintenance across the supply chain. To stay ahead of emerging threats ...
Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...
A version of this story was originally published by the Pulitzer Center, which supported Elizabeth Claire Alberts as an Ocean Reporting Network fellow. We didn’t set out to investigate China’s ...
Our thermal drones exposed pollution from a massive AI data center powering the AI boom. We investigated one of the world’s largest AI data centers, using thermal drone footage to reveal the hidden ...
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana has promoted data centers as a major economic win by promising billions of dollars in investment, new jobs and a place in the future of artificial intelligence. But 13 ...
As many Americans struggle with rising energy prices, 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents face a different dilemma: AI data centers — including those owned by Alphabet, Amazon and Meta — eating up their ...