AI data center infrastructure encompasses the physical facilities, power systems, and cooling architectures required to support large-scale artificial intelligence computation, along with their environmental and grid-level impacts. Work in this area quantifies electricity use, carbon and water footprints, and the rebound effects of efficiency gains, while examining constraints imposed by aging power grids and regulatory regimes. It also evaluates mitigation strategies such as improved energy efficiency, low-carbon construction, water transparency, and long-term procurement of nuclear and other low-carbon generation, including speculative orbital, solar-powered data centers.
Machine learning & AI
Speakers promoting AI are getting booed at universities, voters are rebelling against data centers, and even AI-friendly Trump administration officials are starting to retreat as an artificial intelligence backlash gathers ...
May 20, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Globally, the amount of power solar PV panels can produce in ideal conditions is tipped to surpass coal next year, according to the International Energy Agency.
May 19, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Waste heat from data centers can boost air temperatures in downwind neighborhoods by as much as 4 degrees Fahrenheit, researchers at Arizona State University report in a new study conducted in the Phoenix metro area, the ...
May 18, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
New research suggests electricity demand from data centers and cryptocurrency mining is likely to increase power costs in some parts of the country by up to 57% by 2030, with a national average increase of 6%-29%. Electricity ...
May 18, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Data centers could potentially account for 3% to 9% of Texas' water use by 2040, according to a new white paper from The University of Texas at Austin that recommends greater transparency in the industry's water use and better ...
May 7, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
AI startup Anthropic announced Wednesday it has agreed to a major computing partnership with Elon Musk's SpaceX, securing access to a vast data center as the Claude maker scrambles to keep pace with surging demand for its ...
May 7, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
With U.S. electricity demand starting to rise quickly and expected to continue rising, largely because of the power needed for data centers that process artificial intelligence, people are looking for almost any potential ...
May 6, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
The boom in data center construction is taking up much of the supply of high-tech components, especially processor and memory chips. This demand is squeezing consumer device makers, which are having trouble acquiring enough ...
May 4, 2026
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Business
In late 2024, a new building broke ground in Western Sydney that will draw more electricity than 140,000 homes—roughly the power demand for a mid-sized Australian town like Geelong.
Apr 27, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Due to the explosive growth of artificial intelligence, it is estimated that data centers will consume up to 12% of total U.S. electricity by 2028, according to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Improving data center ...
Apr 27, 2026
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