Can we fix generative AI's massive energy and water use?
With new US firm Stargate announcing a half trillion-dollar investment in Artificial Intelligence, and China's DeepSeek shaking up the industry, what does it all mean for AI's environmental impact?
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Multibillion-dollar data center projects to watch
In addition to Oracle and OpenAI's Stargate initiative, Amazon, Meta, Google and other tech giants are building facilities ...
Editorial: SC open government hero scores against Google secrecy; AG could win even more
Computer data centers consume huge amounts of water, electricity, get incentives from SC and Dominion Energy; Freedom of ...
Amazon picks where the first of its $10 billion in data centers will go in Ohio
Amazon plans to open its first data centers outside central Ohio. Here's where those centers may go and when construction ...
Amazon spends $102 million on land for AI hub: Server farms vs. data centers explained
Amazon bought hundreds of acres of land in Ohio to build a massive data center. Are server farms and data centers different?
Data centers galore? How do Ohio's data center numbers stack up against other states?
News about large data centers coming to Ohio and the Columbus area seems to never stop, but how many data centers do we have ...
Google announces first Texas brick-and-mortar store to open
Google will reportedly open its seventh Google Store location at 11701 Domain Blvd., as part of the Domain Northside, in ...
What we can VERIFY about AI and its environmental impact
The boom in AI has led to a boom in AI data centers. Several readers asked us to VERIFY how these hubs use water and ...
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The Southern Poverty Law Center began in 1971 in a small office in Montgomery, Alabama. Today, we work across the Deep South, focusing on a region where victories for social justice can lead to ...