In spring 2026, social media users spread a rumor that a new data center in Utah would use about 16 billion gallons of water a year and that the center would be 2.7 times the size of Manhattan. Utah ...

SINGAPORE, June 3 (Reuters) - Data centres are expected to consume twice as much power and water by 2030 as they expand to meet the surge in demand from artificial intelligence, U.N. researchers said ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) - U.S. forces deployed to war zones have been targeted using commercially available location data, according to reports fielded by military officials, an illustration of ...

The Google-owned video platform also now has more three billion users, the company revealed Tuesday. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor Sora may be dead, but some of its most buzzed-about features are about ...

Scientists are using sunlight to turn plastic waste into clean fuels like hydrogen, offering a breakthrough solution to both pollution and energy challenges. While still in development, the approach ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Among the many news items that surfaced at AWS re: Invent this year were new features in Amazon Simple Storage ...

The US federal government’s central energy information agency is planning to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use, according to a letter seen by WIRED.

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming ...

A hot potato: GitHub has announced that starting April 24, the company will begin using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve its AI models unless they opt out.

Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually ...

John Steinbach was shocked to receive a $281 electricity bill in January 2026—a huge spike from the roughly $100 he’d paid the previous month. “It’s just so far beyond any bill that I’ve ever had,” he ...