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
A power developer has a novel plan to build a $4 billion data center in rural southwestern Minnesota, as well as an armada of wind, solar and battery plants the company hopes will attract a wealthy buyer.
Nov 28, 2025
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Hardware
As artificial intelligence becomes more powerful and widespread, so does the environmental cost of running it. Behind every chatbot, image generator, and television streaming recommendation are massive banks of millions of ...
Nov 21, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
OpenAI and Taiwan electronics giant Foxconn have agreed to a partnership to design and manufacture key equipment for artificial intelligence data centers in the U.S. as part of ambitious plans to fortify American AI infrastructure.
Nov 21, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
When the first large language models were unleashed, it triggered a headache for authorities around the world as they tried to figure out how to satisfy data centers' endless demand for electricity.
Nov 20, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Ireland hosts one of the world's fast-growing clusters of data centers, but is running headlong into the difficult consequences.
Nov 19, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
The forecasts are eye-popping: utilities saying they'll need two or three times more electricity within a few years to power massive new data centers that are feeding a fast-growing AI economy.
Nov 15, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Global demand for air conditioning could more than triple by 2050, the United Nations warned on Tuesday, calling for more sustainable cooling solutions.
Nov 12, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
A new study published in Environmental Research Letters finds that continued growth in artificial intelligence (AI) use across the United States could add approximately 900,000 tons of CO₂ annually. This is not a small amount ...
Nov 11, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
In the race for AI dominance, American tech giants have the money and the chips, but their ambitions have hit a new obstacle: electric power.
Nov 10, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called on world governments Thursday to invest in AI infrastructure, as questions grow about whether the ChatGPT-maker, the world's most valuable private company, can absorb artificial intelligence's ...
Nov 7, 2025
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