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WASHINGTON — The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world’s largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, which also predicts their water and ...

PHOENIX—A new style of architecture is rising in the sprawling suburbs of the Sonoran Desert: windowless data centers that hum 24 hours a day and guzzle as much electricity as a midsize city. As ...

Tech companies are earmarking unprecedented sums of money to finance the build-out of massive data centers, with a planned $85 billion equity-raise by Google parent Alphabet GOOGL1.17%increase; up ...

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has set her sights on a new target: data centers. The consumer advocate, who is best known as the driving force behind a landmark 1990s lawsuit against Pacific ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Across the U.S., states are rethinking the deals they once offered data ...

David A. Deptula, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general, is the dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. Debates over data center construction have generally targeted the issue as a ...

The Seattle Times’ Climate Lab explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by the Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim and Birte ...

As organizations move quickly to adopt AI, many are discovering that the biggest obstacle isn’t the technology itself; it’s the condition of the data feeding it. When data is scattered across systems, ...

For its fiscal Q3, Sandisk's revenue soared 251% year over year to $6 billion. Data center revenue skyrocketed 645% to $1.47 million, driven by AI data center expansion and a shift to triple-level ...