Thanks to new technologies like artificial intelligence, scientists are increasingly freed from the constraints of the laboratory. It raises questions about how much humans should outsource to robots.

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A project billed as one of the biggest deals to ever blow through Utah hinges on a single vote in Box Elder County. On Monday, the county’s three commissioners are set to decide whether to approve a ...

The developers of a controversial data center in Doña Ana County have abandoned a plan to power the facility with natural gas turbines, turning instead to natural gas-powered fuel cells. The new plan ...

Donald Trump’s bid to cash in on the AI data center boom seems to have sprung a leak before it even left the harbor. That’s not even the half of it, though. According to a form filed with the US ...

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A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. As ...