Microsoft MSFT0.19%increase; up pointing triangle, Google and Amazon AMZN-0.69%decrease; down pointing triangle are among the tech companies spending an estimated $1 trillion on AI infrastructure this ...

Microsoft announced Wednesday that over the past two decades, it has become dramatically more efficient in its use of water to cool data centers, slashing its consumption rate by 90% compared to ...

Nvidia just announced a warm-water cooling system that it says can dramatically reduce the amount of water a data center uses — eliminating “pretty much all water usage” inside the data center, ...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory estimated the facilities could use roughly 11.8 percent of U.S. power by the end of the decade. Data centers could more than double their share of U.S. power and ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va., (WAVY) — A new $300 million data center is being constructed in Newport News for the Department of Energy. Regional leaders held a groundbreaking ceremony on June 12 to begin ...

After decades of being known for nuclear physics research, Jefferson Lab is launching a new chapter centered on artificial intelligence, advanced computing and improving how scientists across the ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A groundbreaking ceremony was held for the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility's new data center on Friday, an amenity which will serve as a ...

If you hang out in any even vaguely AI-skeptical parts of the Internet, you’ve probably stumbled on plenty of memes and posts premised on data centers’ insatiable thirst for water to power evaporative ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

EU eyes minimum efficiency rules for data centres Capacity set to double by 2030, lifting power demand Sustainability label planned amid energy concerns BRUSSELS, June 3 (Reuters) - The European Union ...

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 ...