Here on Earth, the problem is glaring: AI is gobbling up electricity around the globe. Global data-center power consumption ...

In early March 2026, Texas Instruments unveiled an 800V direct current power architecture for next-generation AI data centers ...

This is the first of three feature articles Ars is publishing to explore the financial, technical, and competitive dimensions ...

Meta, Microsoft, and Google are all betting big on new natural gas power plants to run their AI data centers. They may regret ...

Construction robotics startup Kewazo plans to invest in building out its own AI platform with its latest funding round, while ...

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The progressive lawmaker is introducing a bill calling for a national moratorium on data center construction until new AI ...

Researchers warn these “heat islands” could have a “remarkable influence on communities and regional welfare,” and affect more than 340 million people.

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Elon Musk’s merger of SpaceX and xAI — his artificial intelligence (AI) company best known for its chatbot Grok — is a bid to help realize his latest ambition: a constellation of orbital data centers ...

A new study analyzing satellite data from dozens of AI data center sites found that these facilities raise land surface ...