The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming ...

At the outset of the Cold War era, the United States and the Soviet Union rapidly built up large nuclear arsenals as part of the prevailing doctrine of deterrence, under which each nation attempted to ...

THE firm behind a vision to operate a data centre from Warrington’s former Unilever site is seeking an opinion on the potential environmental impacts.

Elham Fini, professor of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University, talks about her work ...

From toxic smoke and oil spills to rising emissions, poisoned soil and damaged ecosystems, war can reshape the environment long after the fighting stops.

NVIDIA’s newest Blackwell chipset architecture is an incredible piece of hardware, offering unprecedented parallel compute capabilities but coming at the cost of massive power demand. The GB200, its ...

Thanks in large part to the training and running of artificial-intelligence models, the amount of power California data centers are using is surging — as are related environmental and health effects, ...

From data centers to AI to 5G internet, how we use the internet has a much bigger effect on our Earth than we might imagine. Cierra was an associate writer for CNET's broadband team, covering all ...

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This activity was supported by a contract between the National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration ...