WASHINGTON (AP) — The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world's largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, which also predicts their water and ...

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 ...

A weirder, more disturbing type of AI-generated anti-AI content started proliferating on Facebook in March. The memes, which show broadly nostalgic images of the American countryside, are shared on ...

In April, GitHub announced that it was moving subscribers from request-based billing to a usage-based model for its AI-powered Copilot service. As that new pricing model goes into effect today, many ...

Artificial intelligence data centers are on the verge of reaching their limits. To meet ballooning demand, chipmakers like Nvidia Corp. are churning out ever more powerful chips, requiring a new ...

Ask a roomful of senior executives what AI can do for their business, and the answers will probably cluster around the same themes: lower costs, smaller headcount, faster processes, leaner operations.

Data centers are quickly becoming the most polarizing buildings in America. On this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel speaks with the reporter Jael Holzman about the backlash to the buildings ...

New research suggests that AI can compromise cognitive function and problem-solving abilities in as little as ten minutes. While the long-term effects of AI have yet to be established, a new study ...

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has launched a crowdsourced map that tracks more than 4,000 major AI data centers across the United States. The Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting website aims ...

Erin Brockovich, the American environmental activist portrayed by Julia Roberts in the film named after her, has launched a new project that aims to give people "a platform to speak up and voice ...

Artificial intelligence might be the only thing that Americans hate and/or fear as much as one another. Fun fact: According to a recent Quinnipiac University poll, 55 percent of Americans believe ...

You polish every bullet, hit Submit, and hear nothing. Ninety-eight percent of Fortune 500 firms use applicant-tracking software that rejects files in milliseconds, and recruiters who open a résumé ...