In April, the DoE had identified 16 federally owned sites that could potentially host data centers and AI infrastructure.

An unprecedented look at the state of AI’s energy and resource usage, where it is now, where it is headed in the years to come, and why we have to get it right.

The US Department of Energy (DoE) has identified four sites where private sector firms will be invited to colocate ...

AI’s appetite for energy is enormous. But its potential to transform how we generate, distribute and use that energy is even greater. We just have to be smart enough to let it.

Last week, Sam Altman laid out his vision for how AI can transform humanity by the 2030s, and he reiterated the possibilities that lie ahead: “ [Intelligence and energy] have been the ...

Innovation in IT got us to this point. Graphics processing units (GPUs) that power the computing behind AI have fallen in cost by 99% since 2006. There was similar concern about the energy use of ...

Nuclear deterrence is no longer a two-player game, and emerging technologies further threaten the status quo. The result is a ...

The US agency responsible for maintaining and designing the nation’s cache of nuclear weapons was among those breached by a ...

AI is guzzling energy. Scientists estimate North American data centers' power requirements increased nearly 100% from 2022 to 2023, largely driven by generative AI (GenAI).

The Artificial Intelligence Environmental Impacts Act of 2024, out of Massachusetts, is one of the first bills that sets out to align our AI ambitions with our energy realities, calling for the ...

ChatGPT launched the chatbot era in November 2022, but despite its huge popularity the conversational interface limited what ...

As AI models become “smarter,” the environmental cost of using them may be rising. Your carbon footprint may come down to what questions you ask it.