Microsoft announced Wednesday that over the past two decades, it has become dramatically more efficient in its use of water to cool data centers, slashing its consumption rate by 90% compared to ...

Nvidia just announced a warm-water cooling system that it says can dramatically reduce the amount of water a data center uses — eliminating “pretty much all water usage” inside the data center, ...

If you hang out in any even vaguely AI-skeptical parts of the Internet, you’ve probably stumbled on plenty of memes and posts premised on data centers’ insatiable thirst for water to power evaporative ...

Amazon said its global data-center operations withdrew about 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025, as data center companies around the world face growing scrutiny over the environmental impact of ...

WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) - Elon Musk’s xAI and SpaceX have been sued by Mississippi residents who say a power plant fueling nearby data centers is blasting “omnipresent and inescapable” noise that ...

Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...

K–12 districts are flush with data. Throughout a given school year, educators and district employees work with attendance records, assessment scores, course grades, behavior logs and more. But it is ...

Residents across Long Island are expressing concerns about future artificial intelligence data centers after an AI flyer started circulating on social media. “I feel between the light pollution, the ...

An AI-generated flyer circulating online sparked concern among Brookhaven residents this week after falsely claiming a public hearing and vote were scheduled regarding a proposed Artificial ...

DUBUQUE, Iowa (KCRG) — The Dubuque County Board of Supervisors approved a 12-month moratorium on data centers at a special meeting Tuesday. The proposed pause entering the meeting called for a 120-day ...

WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) - Prominent U.S. law firm Wiley Rein has been sued in a proposed class action alleging the firm failed to protect sensitive personal data stolen by hackers believed to be ...

In a historic blow to Big Tech development in the Garden State, the Millville Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday night to completely ban data centers within city limits. The decision effectively ...