Shreveport Times

What is a data center? Here's what it does, why it matters

A data center is a facility that houses computer servers, storage systems and networking equipment used to store, process and ...
Undark Magazine

How Much Water Do AI Data Centers Really Use?

How the AI industry uses water and how that impacts an increasingly parched world is more complicated than people think.
Opinion

Data centers are the buildings of our era. Do they have to be so boring?

The AI data center building boom is spreading large-scale facilities across the U.S., but few are being designed with even an iota of aesthetic distinction. If a single type of building could define ...

How data centers are driving up the cost of electricity — and what grid operators can do

Consumers see data centers as the energy-hungry culprits behind rising energy prices. Utilities see data centers as large customers who could help finance grid upgrades. As the data center boom ...
Diginomica

Data centers and AI do use water - but less than you think, and there are much worse offenders

Many welcome recent US AI expansion plans into the UK. However, alongside jubilation about billions in inward investment come troubling reservations about the environmental cost of the 95 new UK data ...
KGW8

Data centers consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell the public exactly how much

WASHINGTON — Story from The Conversation by Peyton McCauley, Water Policy Specialist, Sea Grant UW Water Science-Policy Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Melissa Scanlan, Professor and ...