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
Abe Silverman, an assistant research scholar with the Ralph O'Connor Sustainable Energy Institute and attorney, studies and advises academics, industry, and state and federal regulators on barriers to the clean energy transition, ...
Jan 21, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Cut the words "please" and "thank you" from your next ChatGPT query and, if you believe some of the talk online, you might think you are helping save the planet.
Jan 15, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Microsoft said Tuesday it will shoulder the full electricity costs of its US data centers to prevent American households from facing higher power bills driven by surging AI energy demand.
Jan 13, 2026
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Business
It won't be easy for Big Tech companies to win the hearts and minds of Americans who are angered about massive artificial intelligence data centers sprouting up in their neighborhoods, straining electricity grids and drawing ...
Jan 13, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Meta has cut a trio of deals to power its artificial intelligence data centers, securing enough energy to light up the equivalent of about 5 million homes.
Jan 10, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Facebook parent Meta has reached nuclear power deals with three companies as it continues to look for electricity sources for its artificial intelligence data centers.
Jan 9, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
The rapid development and widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems is posing new challenges for electricity consumption. This is because most AI systems rely on data centers, facilities hosting several computing ...
Energy & Green Tech
Artificial intelligence has captured headlines recently for its rapidly growing energy demands, and particularly the surging electricity usage of data centers that enable the training and deployment of the latest generative ...
Jan 9, 2026
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Business
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI is set to spend $20 billion to build a data center in Southaven, Mississippi, Gov. Tate Reeves announced Thursday, calling it the largest private investment in the state's history.
Jan 9, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Crowds flooded the freshly opened showroom floors on Day 2 of the CES and were met by thousands of robots, AI companions, assistants, health longevity tech, wearables and more.
Jan 7, 2026
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