One seismometer is often not enough to reliably detect earthquakes or human activity such as underground nuclear tests.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q. I often perform horizontal, vertical, and trend analysis for clients. Each time revised financial statements arrive, I find myself recreating formulas, rechecking ranges, and confirming that ...

A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...

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 ...

John Steinbach was shocked to receive a $281 electricity bill in January 2026—a huge spike from the roughly $100 he’d paid the previous month. “It’s just so far beyond any bill that I’ve ever had,” he ...

Roughly one in five student interactions with generative artificial intelligence on school technology involved cheating, self-harm, bullying, and other problematic behaviors, according to data ...

OpenAI's Sam Altman says AI's water concerns are "totally fake." The truth about AI's impact on natural resources is more complicated. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing ...

The Electric Power Research Institute’s electricity-demand estimates are about 60 percent higher than the group anticipated two years ago. Data centers could double their current share of U.S. power ...