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.
Business
Google-parent Alphabet will issue bonds maturing in 100 years as it continues to invest massively in infrastructure for artificial intelligence, according to data published Tuesday by Bloomberg.
Feb 10, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
New data on China's relentless energy installations underscore warnings from Elon Musk and Jensen Huang that the nation's world-beating power network will deliver a major advantage over the U.S. in the race to dominate artificial ...
Feb 7, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
The growth and impact of artificial intelligence are limited by the power and energy that it takes to train machine learning models. So how are researchers working to improve computing efficiency to support the rising demand ...
Feb 7, 2026
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Engineering
Researchers in Taiwan demonstrate that installing solar panels above clam ponds can simultaneously support aquaculture and renewable energy under increasing climate stress. Using real-world farm data, the study shows that ...
Feb 5, 2026
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Elon Musk vowed this week to upend another industry just as he did with cars and rockets—and once again he's taking on long odds.
Feb 4, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Data centers siphon huge amounts of energy to power artificial intelligence. But their environmental footprint starts to balloon even before the first server switches on due to the immense amount of carbon-intensive concrete ...
Feb 2, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
About 50 residents of a community outside Chile's capital spent Saturday trying their best to power an entirely human-operated chatbot that could answer questions and make silly pictures on command, in a message to highlight ...
Feb 1, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Penn Engineers have developed a novel design for solar-powered data centers that will orbit Earth and could realistically scale to meet the growing demand for AI computing while reducing the environmental impact of data centers.
Jan 28, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
What if traffic could compute? This may sound strange, but researchers at Tohoku University's WPI-AIMR have unveiled a bold new idea: using road traffic itself as a computer.
Jan 22, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
As artificial intelligence threatens to upend job markets in countries around the world, Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang brushed off longer term concerns and made the case that skilled vocational workers ...
Jan 22, 2026
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