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Artificial Intelligence

A Company Eyes What Would Be North Carolina’s First Commercial Natural Gas Well

Deep River Data, with ties to cryptocurrency, says it would use the extracted gas to power a data center for “AI workloads,” not crypto mines.

By Lisa Sorg

Data centers are energy-intensive, running servers around the clock to power streams of computer computations. Credit: Bastien Ohier/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images
Transmission lines are seen in Montgomery Village, Md. Credit: Eric Lee/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Maryland Leads Multistate Push to Shield Consumers from New Data Center Costs

By Aman Azhar

Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks at the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University on July 15 in Pittsburgh. Credit: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

Four Governors Whose States Rely on PJM Want Data Centers to Guarantee Their Own Power

By Rambo Talabong

A view of Meta’s newly constructed data center on July 18, 2024, in Eagle Mountain, Utah. Credit: George Frey/AFP via Getty Images

AI Is Pushing Climate Goals Out of Reach, New Reports Say

By Jake Bolster

Sperm whales swim near the Eastern Caribbean island of Dominica. Sperm whales are the deepest diving mammals on Earth, going as far as 3,000 meters. Credit: Amanda Cotton/CETI

AI Is Decoding Whales’ Communications. Could That Be a Turning Point in the Push for Their Rights?

By Katie Surma

An electric substation is seen at a power plant in Houston. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

‘Rapid Explosion’ of Data Centers Causes Planning Struggles in Texas

By Arcelia Martin

Power lines tower above a cornfield near New Bloomfield, Mo. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

As the Data Center Boom Ramps Up in the Rural Midwest, What Should Communities Expect?

By Alexia Underwood

Amazon data centers loom over houses at the edge of a neighborhood in Loudoun County, Va. Credit: Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images

How Did This State Become the Data Center Capital of the World?

By Dan Gearino, Charles Paullin

A rendering of Related Digital’s planned data center in Saline Township, Mich. Credit: Related Digital

Data Center Developer Takes a Small Michigan Farming Community to Court

By K.R. Callaway

Transmission lines feed into a substation near a data center construction site on July 24 in Lewis Center, Ohio. Credit: Eli Hiller/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Trump Administration Seeks to Speed Data Center Grid Connections and Expand Federal Control of Power System

By Dan Gearino

An aerial view of an Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Va. Credit: Nathan Howard/Getty Images

Pennsylvania Community Groups Urge Officials to Restrict Data Center Development

By Jon Hurdle

A group of residents are trying to stop a proposed data center on an 822-acre property largely in Augusta Charter Township, Mich. Credit: Daniel Karmann/picture alliance via Getty Images

A Michigan Town Hopes to Stop a Data Center With a 2026 Ballot Initiative

By Tom Perkins

The Prime Data Center in Vernon, Calif. Credit: Ashley Orona/LA Public Press

The AI Data Center Boom Comes to Southeast LA

By Ashley Orona, LA Public Press

Students walk through the University of Michigan campus on April 3 in Ann Arbor, Mich. Credit: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images

Los Alamos and University of Michigan Want to Build a National Security ‘Data Center’ in Ypsilanti. Residents and Local Officials See Few Benefits.

By Tom Perkins

Gov. JB Pritzker speaks at the groundbreaking of the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park on Tuesday in Chicago. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

As Chicago Quantum Campus Breaks Ground, Residents Call for Community Benefits

By Keerti Gopal

A digitally rendered image of Terranova’s robot, called the Atlas 3. Credit: Courtesy of Terranova

Can an AI-Guided Robot Help a California City Resist Sea Level Rise and Sequester Carbon?

By Jennifer Ugwa

The site of the proposed Bessemer data center is currently a nearly 700-acre wooded plot. Construction would require the clearcutting of more than 100 acres. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Citing Climate Crisis, NAACP Expresses Opposition to Massive Alabama Data Center

By Lee Hedgepeth

A data center’s liquid cooling system. Credit: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The Washington Post via Getty Images

How Much Water and Energy do Data Centers Consume? A New Jersey Bill Demands Answers.

By Rambo Talabong

An AI-generated humpback whale (left) is seen next to an actual photo of a humpback whale. This hyperrealistic duplicate shows how far generative AI has come, experts say. Credit: Duke MaRRS Lab

Could These ‘Deepfake’ Whales Aid Conservation Efforts?

By Kiley Price

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