The Atlantic recently examined the growing environmental toll of artificial intelligence data centers, joining a wave of scrutiny over how the industry’s electricity appetite is straining power grids ...

Data centers power everyday life, and their energy use is rising fast. Trane Technologies' Scott Smith explains what drives data center energy consumption, why cooling matters and how smarter systems ...

Data centers are expanding across the central U.S. to meet growing demand for artificial intelligence. That's raising concerns about growing energy demand and freshwater usage. In rural Dane County, ...

Artificial intelligence is growing fast, and so are the number of computers that power it. Behind the scenes, this rapid growth is putting a huge strain on the data centers that run AI models. These ...

The North Carolina Utilities Commission listen to testimony in their downtown Raleigh hearing room on October 14, 2025. Different stakeholders presented to the commission ideas for how to balance ...

Researchers have proposed a zeolite-based “thermal battery” system that could cut the electricity data centers spend on cooling by up to 86%, according to a preprint published on ChemRxiv. The finding ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defended the resource use of AI on Friday, arguing that water concerns were "fake" and comparing it to ...

Data center operators and utilities often do not disclose facility-specific energy and water usage data. The Republic built a database to estimate data centers' energy capacity by analyzing air ...