However, xAI has taken steps to reduce its environmental footprint. In February it announced a plan to build a new wastewater ...

The demand for data centers is growing faster than our ability to mitigate their skyrocketing economic and environmental costs Amber X. Chen - AAAS Mass Media Fellow As the demand for A.I. increases, ...

For nearly as long as modern computing has been around, so have the boxy, unassuming data centers that host servers and networking equipment. But the vast capacity needed for the artificial ...

SALINE TWP., MI — Despite local officials’ opposition, a controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community in southeast Washtenaw County ...

AUGUSTA TWP., MI — A proposal for a large computer data center campus on hundreds of acres in southeast Washtenaw County has sparked concerns from many nearby residents. New York City-based real ...

Google recently courted the township of Franklin, Ind., so that it could construct a giant campus to house the computer hardware that powers its internet business. But the company needed to rezone ...

Big Tech has come to town. Billion-dollar companies are in a race to build “hyperscale” data centers to fuel their push to power artificial intelligence and cloud computing technologies. The rural ...

SummaryIn data-center terms, scaling out involves linking computers, while scaling up packs more GPUs into a computer, ...

Amazon Web Services executive says data center is long-term commitment that company wants to be part of community.

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI — There are three data center projects aimed at powering AI and computing proposed in Washtenaw County. More are anticipated. In response, county officials are collecting ...

Advances in artificial intelligence are driving surging demand for data centers. But these warehouse-like facilities, containing computers that process and store data, require a lot of land and huge ...

Three Senate Democrats said Tuesday that they are investigating the impact of data centers on consumer electricity bills amid concerns that the expansion of energy-hungry artificial intelligence (AI) ...