Building AI sustainably seems like a pipe dream as tech giants that previously made promises to cut emissions have been racing to build out massive…
Author: Molly Taft
xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit
xAI has added 19 natural gas turbines to its second data center campus in Southhaven, Mississippi, over the past two months, according to internal emails…
A New Google-Funded Data Center Will Be Powered by a Massive Gas Plant
“Grid growth can’t match AI demand, so a pragmatic ‘all-of-the-above’ strategy is essential—with gas as a critical bridge,” Cully Cavness, the cofounder and president of…
Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers Use
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…
New Bernie Sanders AI Safety Bill Would Halt Data Center Construction
Dozens of cities and counties across the US have introduced local moratoria on data center development in response to local pushback. At least a dozen…
Big Tech Signs White House Data Center Pledge With Good Optics and Little Substance
Several key tech companies signed a nonbinding pledge at the White House on Wednesday that the Trump administration claims will ensure that tech companies do…
Big Tech Says Generative AI Will Save the Planet. It Doesn't Offer Much Proof
But a lot of these claims, it turns out, have very little—if any—actual proof behind them. Joshi is the author of a new report, released…
New York Is the Latest State to Consider a Data Center Pause
Two New York lawmakers on Friday announced that they are introducing a bill that would impose a three-year moratorium on data center development. The announcement…
Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Data centers have caused the demand for gas-fired power in the US to explode over the past two years, according to new research released Wednesday.…
The Great Big Power Play
Take yourself back to 2017. Get Out and The Shape of Water were playing in theaters, Zohran Mamdani was still known as rapper Young Cardamom,…