Artificial intelligence is often sold as a frictionless, almost weightless technology, but the reality is soaked in water.

Thanks in large part to the training and running of artificial-intelligence models, the amount of power California data centers are using is surging — as are related environmental and health effects, ...

STATE CAPITOL IN HARRISBURG. TOM. WELL, LAURIE, THIS RELATES TO DATA CENTERS BECAUSE THEY USE A LOT OF POWER. AND AS A RESULT, SENATE REPUBLICANS ARE TOUTING ONE OF THE WINS THEY GOT IN THE BUDGET, ...

Across the United States, the physical footprint of artificial intelligence is colliding with the people who live next door ...

Fueled by a boom in artificial intelligence and the nation’s insatiable demand for cloud computing, Michigan is plunging into an era of massive data centers. Across the state, developers are pitching ...

Data centers are springing up across tropical Latin America, Southeast Asia, Indonesia and Africa. But these facilities are often unlike those of the recent past. Today’s advanced data centers are ...