Tag: data centers

9 AI Data Center Myths and Facts

Nine AI data center myths, fact-checked. What they really do to your electric bill, local water supply, jobs, and air…

Digital Afterlife: When Grief Becomes a Subscription Service.

The growing digital afterlife industry sells AI avatars of the dead — chatbots, holograms, and 3D voice replicas built from…

A different set of rules’: Thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations

Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship data centers.

Google to build three new data centers in Texas in $40 billion investment

The announcement by Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai is the latest multi-billion dollar investment in Texas by tech companies…

The West’s new gold rush is the data center boom

The tech industry’s soaring electricity and water demands are raising consumer rates and threatening sustainability goals.

Report: AI Data Center Boom Threatens U.S. Climate Goals

The Center for Biological Diversity put out a press release about a report showing how the AI data center boom…

They gobble Earth’s resources. What if we put AI data centers in space instead?

AI data centers in space: A sci-fi idea is gaining supporters. These facilities are expected to consume up to 12…

Electricity Costs Skyrocket For Residents as Truth About Data Centers Revealed

Data Centers are being built across the country. They aren’t in use, yet we’re already seeing the effect they have…

AI data centers are power-hungry water-guzzlers. Americans will pay the price

AI data centers are using more and more power. They aren’t getting a shutoff notice, though, because regular consumers are…

This is How the World Ends

Mark Zuckerberg is building AI data centers to house the supercomputers: Prometheus and Hyperion. Hyperion, the larger of the two,…