Data Centers are Lousy for the Planet. Should We Move Them to Space?

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Principals, Developers Plan Hyperscale Data Center In New Mexico

Project Jupiter is one part of Stargate, an enormous high-tech enterprise. But it hasn’t been smooth sailing for developers, ...

America’s AI Boom Is Running Into An Unplanned Water Problem

America’s AI boom is driving a surge in data center construction—along with rising water demand. Why water is becoming the ...
The New Yorker

Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid

Drive in almost any direction from almost any American city, and soon enough you’ll arrive at a data center—a giant white box rising from graded earth, flanked by generators and fenced like a prison ...
The New York Times

Wall St. Is All In on A.I. Data Centers. But Are They the Next Bubble?

Private equity firms like Blackstone are using their clients’ money to buy and build data centers to fuel the artificial intelligence boom. By Maureen Farrell Maureen Farrell traveled to Northern ...
NPR

Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks

Google recently courted the township of Franklin, Ind., so that it could construct a giant campus to house the computer hardware that powers its internet business. But the company needed to rezone ...
The New York Times

At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.

On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up. On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, ...