Hydro Ottawa’s CEO says the utility is under “extraordinary pressures” as energy-hungry data centres lead a historic surge in large-scale customers seeking to connect to the power grid. Bryce Conrad ...

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, ...

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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 ...

Wisconsin energy regulators ruled that tech companies must pay the full cost for the massive energy consumption of AI data centers. The new data centers are projected to require an amount of ...

WAYNE COUNTY, Pa. — The ongoing data center debate now finds itself being argued here in Clinton Township as residents fight against a nearly 700-acre, 20-plus-building data center campus. "Thank you ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) – State lawmakers advanced a bill aimed at regulating data centers in South Carolina. It’s a topic that has been much debated, including in the Lowcountry. The state senate’s ...

Everyone is using generative artificial intelligence. Every industry, from film and marketing to cybersecurity and manufacturing, has quickly integrated AI into its tech stack. But AI’s massive power ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

The federal government’s requests for social media user data has dramatically spiked over the past decade, a new report found, revealing major technology platforms reported a 770 percent increase in ...