CINCINNATI—Late at night, or when her 18-month-old daughter is napping, Jessica Sharp logs onto Chat GPT and asks it to help her in her fight to stop a data center from being built just steps away ...

A hot potato: GitHub has announced that starting April 24, the company will begin using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve its AI models unless they opt out.

Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually ...

John Steinbach was shocked to receive a $281 electricity bill in January 2026—a huge spike from the roughly $100 he’d paid the previous month. “It’s just so far beyond any bill that I’ve ever had,” he ...

Google has signed agreements with five U.S. electric utilities in states from Arkansas to Minnesota to curtail its electricity use during periods of peak demand, the company said on March 19, in its ...

An entrepreneur says overuse of AI will dull workers' critical-thinking skills. And he has a rule for his team and kids to stave off AI atrophy. Start with 10% human thinking, let AI handle the middle ...

Data centres use huge amounts of energy and chips are in high demand – could brain cells be the answer? Australia-based start-up Cortical Labs has announced it is building two “biological” data ...

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 ...

BOTETOURT COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - The Western Virginia Water Authority this week released records detailing Google’s projected water use at a planned data center in Botetourt County, following a ...

With so much data stored on ephemeral mediums like hard drives and magnetic tape, what will remain of our civilization in the millennia to come? Thanks to an innovation from Microsoft researchers, the ...

Meta struck a massive chip deal with Nvidia that includes new standalone CPUs and next-generation GPUs and Vera Rubin rack-scale systems. The social media giant will also use Nvidia for networking ...

Multiple reports show the data centers used to store, train and operate AI models use significant amounts of energy and water, with a rippling impact on the environment and public health. According to ...