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 ...

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 ...

Alcoa is in talks to sell its idle Massena East aluminum smelter in upstate New York to bitcoin mining firm NYDIG. Alcoa is in talks to sell its idle Massena East aluminum smelter in upstate New York ...

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.

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 ...

Starcloud plans to mine Bitcoin from orbit using ASIC hardware, arguing the economics of space computing favor specialized mining chips over GPUs. Starcloud, an Nvidia-backed orbital data center ...

HASTINGS, Neb. (KSNB) - A New York-based data-mining company is set to build a data center in Grand Island, and city utilities officials say the project will not add costs to ratepayers. Fortitude ...

Solo mining rewards full block ownership but demands tolerance for long dry spells between payouts. Monero, Kaspa, Ravencoin, and Vertcoin currently offer the best balance of accessibility and ...

Multiple reports show the data centers used to store, train and operate AI models use significant amounts of energy and water, with a rippling impact on the environment and public health. According to ...

While today’s data center conversation revolves around AI, bitcoin mining was the original energy disruptor — and its operators are now poised to cash in on the new demand. Bitcoin, the most popular ...

Tech companies are building data centers as quickly as possible to run AI. These facilities are controviersial because they use copious amounts of electricity and might tax an electrical grid that in ...