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Artificial Intelligence

Soluna’s Project Dorothy data center in Texas. Credit: Soluna

How a Data Center Company Uses Stranded Renewable Energy

By Arcelia Martin

Brad Kaaber, a representative of the proposed data center developer, speaks to zoning commissioners during a Tuesday meeting in a room of residents opposed to the project. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

An Alabama City Recommends Changing Its Laws to Accommodate One of the Country’s Largest Proposed Data Centers

By Lee Hedgepeth

Four people are standing out of doors, trees in the background. The two in the middle are holding a piece of paper with the colorful Birmingham darter.

The Darter Fish and the Data Center

By Lee Hedgepeth, Lanier Isom

A proposed data center for Equinix Inc. in Minooka could use 30 percent of the municipality’s allocated drinking water. Credit: Equinix

As Data Centers Proliferate Across Illinois, Communities Grapple with How to Supply the Necessary Water

By Susan Cosier

The Hays Energy Project, a 990 MW gas-fired power plant near San Marcos, is seen on May 27. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Developers Propose More Than 100 New Gas Power Plants in Texas

By Dylan Baddour

Sisters Abigail and Jennifer Lindsey stand on their rural property on May 27 outside New Braunfels, Texas, where they posted a sign in opposition to a large data center and power plant planned across the street. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Data Centers Are Building Their Own Gas Power Plants in Texas

By Dylan Baddour, Arcelia Martin

An aerial view of the Clinton Clean Energy Center in Illinois. Credit: Constellation Energy

Meta Strikes 20-Year Nuclear Power Deal With Constellation Energy

By Arcelia Martin

Alabamians Want Answers About a Four-Million-Square-Foot Data Center Coming to Their Backyards

By Lee Hedgepeth, Lanier Isom

Large electrical transmission lines are routed to Meta's data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah. Credit: George Frey/AFP via Getty Images

Flexibility Will Go a Long Way Toward Managing the Grid of the Near Future, Researchers Say

By Dan Gearino

Diesel-fueled generators sit between buildings at the Equinix Data Center in Ashburn, Va. Credit: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The Washington Post via Getty Images

DeepSeek’s Emergence Shows the Power Sector’s AI Dreams May Not Proceed as Expected

By Dan Gearino

Gov. JB Pritzker speaks during a news conference at the former U.S. Steel South Works site to discuss a massive quantum computing campus on Chicago’s South Side. Credit: Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file photo

As Illinois’ Governor Recruits Data Centers, Chicagoans’ Electricity Bills Are Getting More Expensive

By Brett Chase, Dan Gearino

People walk through the hallways at Equinix Data Center in Ashburn, Va., on May 9. Credit: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The Washington Post via Getty Images

A Data Center Fight Touches on a Big Question: Who Assumes the Financial Risk for the AI Boom?

By Dan Gearino

A worker makes his way down a corridor on the third floor of One Wilshire, a high-rise office building that has been almost entirely converted into a data center for AI, in downtown Los Angeles on Sept. 10. Credit: Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

AI Is Everywhere Now—and It’s Sucking Up a Lot of Water

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

An aerial view of melting glaciers in Scoresby Fjord near Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland on Aug. 21, 2023. Credit: Olivier Morin/AFP via Getty Images

A New Study Revealed Big Underestimates of Greenland Ice Loss—and the Power of New Technologies to Track the Changes

By Moriah McDonald

This picture taken on January 23, 2023 in Toulouse, southwestern France, shows screens displaying the logos of OpenAI and ChatGPT. Credit: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images

AI Can Spread Climate Misinformation ‘Much Cheaper and Faster,’ Study Warns

By Kristoffer Tigue

Asian carp are an invasive species wreaking havoc on U.S. waterways. Credit: Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images

Warming Trends: Asian Carp Hate ‘80s Rock, Beekeeping to Restore a Mountain Top and a Lot of Reasons to Go Vegan

By Katelyn Weisbrod

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