In terms of climate, and energy, and ecology, we are increasingly focused on carbon footprints as a whole, and so it makes ...

Tech companies in the AI race need power, and lots of it. They aren’t waiting around for the archaic U.S. power grid to catch up. In West Texas, natural-gas-fired power generation is under ...

A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built. An extensive new analysis looks ...

There has been much discussion in the space community recently about building large data centers in orbit to avoid the environmental consequences of sprawling computing facilities on Earth. These ...

Anthropic will spend $50 billion to build its own data centers. They'll be in Texas, New York, and elsewhere across the US. It could set new standards for AI labs trying to scale. Anthropic will ...

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Space-based computing offers easy access to solar power but presents its own environmental challenges To hear Silicon Valley ...

With the nation’s biggest electric grid operator set to vote on a new policy on data centers this week, a group of bipartisan Maryland politicians and utility watchdog groups is pressuring regulators ...

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Based in Mountain View, California, Groq’s business focuses on AI inference, the computing through which users interact with large language AI models. Groq produces its own specialized chips and ...