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 ...

Microsoft CEO: New Data Centers Use the Same Amount of Water As a Restaurant According to Satya Nadella, Microsoft's newer facilities use a closed-loop cooling system that circulates the same water ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence data centers are on the verge of reaching their limits. To meet ballooning demand, chipmakers like Nvidia Corp. are churning out ever more powerful chips, requiring a new ...

California's almond farms consume 4.2 billion gallons of waters per day, according to Reason's Christian Britschgi. Data centers consume just 46 million gallons per day. Those numbers will certainly ...

Data centers are expanding into water-stressed California communities. Lax disclosure rules keep the public in the dark about actual water usage. Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit newsroom ...

Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. is a policy reporter at The Verge ...

A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...

Abstract: We address language-conditioned robotic manipulation using flow-based trajectory generation, which enables training on human and web videos of object manipulation and requires only minimal ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

Wisconsin is becoming a popular location for data centers due to its climate, water access, and affordable land. The majority of a data center's water footprint comes from the offsite electricity ...