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.
Energy & Green Tech
Power-hungry data centers run hot, so one Chinese company is planning to submerge a pod of servers in the sea off Shanghai with hopes of solving computing's energy woes.
Oct 3, 2025
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Business
The staggering investments in artificial intelligence keep coming: Last week, AI chip giant Nvidia announced it would invest $100 billion to help OpenAI, the frontrunner in generative AI, build data centers.
Oct 2, 2025
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Business
Dallas-Fort Worth is in the midst of a data center boom driven by artificial intelligence and everybody's talking about it.
Oct 1, 2025
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Computer Sciences
It's a sunny June day in southeast England. I'm driving along a quiet, rural road that stretches through the Kent countryside. The sun flashes through breaks in the hedgerow, offering glimpses of verdant crop fields and old ...
Sep 27, 2025
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Business
In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world's largest data centers, a $10 billion behemoth as big as 70 football fields that will consume more power in a day than the entire city of New Orleans at the ...
Sep 25, 2025
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Business
The Stargate Project has brought the global artificial intelligence race to the West Texas desert.
Sep 24, 2025
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Business
Data center demand in Dallas is skyrocketing, with vacant space being snapped up almost as soon as it hits the market.
Sep 23, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Generative AI promises to help solve everything from climate change to poverty. But behind every chatbot response lies a deep environmental cost.
Sep 15, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
With the explosive growth of Big Tech's data centers threatening to overload U.S. electricity grids, policymakers are taking a hard look at a tough-love solution: bumping the energy-hungry data centers off grids during power ...
Sep 13, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Artificial intelligence is growing fast, and so are the number of computers that power it. Behind the scenes, this rapid growth is putting a huge strain on the data centers that run AI models. These facilities are using more ...
Sep 3, 2025
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