In a Penn State lab, a small cylinder of soil sits wired with sensors, slowly cooling as it mimics conditions thousands of miles away. At first, it looks unremarkable, like dirt from an average ...

To understand where Earth might be headed, it's important to know where it has been. Throughout its existence, especially over the past couple of million years, Earth has experienced periodic cold and ...

What to know about the local backlash against the booming data center industry, the era of me-first energy and more climate news. By Claire Brown The backlash against energy-guzzling data centers has ...

Two decades ago, very few people knew about data centers. The concept of artificial intelligence mostly existed as science fiction, a la the HAL 9000 computer in “2001: A Space Odyssey.” And the ...

LANSING, Mich. — The Detroit Regional Chamber's policy conference on Mackinac Island is happening this week, bringing together politicians and government officials with businessmen. The first two days ...

The tech giant says a breakthrough in data center networking has dramatically accelerated the flow of information through its massive cloud infrastructure. The new technology hinges on a “quasi-random ...

Mansfield wants no part of data centers, as the Boston suburb is the first Bay State municipality to enact a bylaw that essentially bans the “power-hungry” facilities from town. Massachusetts planners ...

Generative models for graph data form a rapidly maturing subfield at the intersection of network science and machine learning, aiming to synthesise realistic graph structures that capture the ...

The mammoth data halls rising out of the ground all across Oregon are intruding into this spring’s election cycle as candidates decry tech companies’ prodigious consumption of water, power and land.

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 ...

Measures seeking to block or rein in data center construction are gaining momentum at the state and local level, as Americans increasingly sour on the massive buildout of AI infrastructure in their ...