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
Although the topic of AI is seemingly inescapable, its stunning environmental impacts remain mostly hidden. New studies reveal a clearer picture—one that should spur us to take action this year. Evidence shows that AI's carbon ...
Mar 4, 2026
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Tech titan Amazon is working to step out of Nvidia's shadow with custom "Trainium" chips designed specially for machine learning as billions of dollars are poured into artificial intelligence (AI).
Feb 27, 2026
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Business
Pay any attention to the computer market these days and one thing becomes abundantly clear: RAM—or Random-Access Memory—has gotten pretty expensive. Memory prices have already surged approximately 90% in the first quarter ...
Feb 27, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
New data centers are springing up worldwide as demand soars for artificial intelligence and cloud computing, with Asia one of the sector's fastest growing regions.
Feb 26, 2026
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Business
As artificial intelligence (AI) drives explosive growth in data centers, communities across the U.S. are facing rising electricity costs, new industrial development, and mounting strain on an aging power grid.
Feb 26, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
The rapid growth of data centers that support artificial intelligence is reshaping how electricity systems operate across the United States.
Feb 25, 2026
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Software
AI users and developers can now measure the amount of electricity various AI models consume to complete tasks with an open-source software and online leaderboard developed at the University of Michigan. Companies can download ...
Feb 23, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
New software, developed by the University of Sheffield spin-out AENi aims to transform how the world's essential net-zero infrastructure is planned. The new digital platform will help the organizations shaping the world's ...
Feb 22, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
The rapid expansion of renewable energy is being used to meet rising electricity demands rather than displacing fossil fuels, according to new research by the University of Sussex. Energy-hungry artificial intelligence data ...
Feb 13, 2026
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Business
Half of the original founding team at Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI has now departed after two co-founders resigned in rapid succession this week, raising fresh questions about talent retention ahead of ...
Feb 11, 2026
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