In the spring of 2020, the Federal Reserve faced a challenge: The COVID-19 pandemic was upending daily life with shutdowns, social distancing, and heightened uncertainty, but the traditional economic ...

OpenAI's Sam Altman says AI's water concerns are "totally fake." The truth about AI's impact on natural resources is more complicated. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency released a draft for a new permit that would allow data centers across the state to release untreated wastewater and stormwater ...

HONG KONG, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Global data centre operator DayOne, affiliated with China's GDS Holdings (9698.HK), opens new tab, aims to raise as much as $5 billion in a U.S. initial public offering, ...

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 ...

In these politically divisive times, there’s one thing we all agree on—we don’t want a giant data center in our backyard. Behold, the hyperscale data center! Massive structures, with thousands of ...

The covid.gov website says covid-19 most likely originated in a Chinese lab, although scientists are in fact deeply divided over its origin. A widely read report posted on energy.gov/topics/climate ...

This coal plant in central Pennsylvania, once the largest in the state, was shuttered in 2023 after powering the region for over 50 years. Earlier this year, wrecking crews blasted the plant’s cooling ...

Chris Mooney is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a CNN Climate contributor. He is currently a professor of practice in the Environmental Institute at the University of Virginia. Planet-warming ...

Google’s new Data Manager API gives advertisers a simpler, centralized way to feed first-party data into its AI systems. Google is rolling out a new Data Manager API that lets you plug first-party ...