Generative AI is among the top disruptive technologies, and its potential to transform work has driven widespread adoption. GenAI has significant value to businesses. It has the potential to grow in ...

Against a backdrop of deadly summer heatwaves and large-scale wildfires throughout Europe, the European Union is moving ahead with plans to fund and build major data centres to power AI. As these ...

The Trump administration says America can lead the AI race without sacrificing local communities, despite growing concerns about data centers.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday called on artificial intelligence companies to release information about the carbon pollution they create, along with the water and land ...

Artificial intelligence is fueling a boom in data centers as well as concern about their environmental footprint. Data facilities consume significant electricity and water, especially as demand for ...

The concern is shared among Democrats and Republicans.

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Asha LaManque ’27 is a rising senior majoring in environmental science with double minors in biology and computer science, and was a 2025-26 Hackworth Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied ...

Artificial intelligence systems rely on powerful servers inside massive AI data centers that generate significant heat during operation, which directly contributes to rising water usage. As workloads ...

We may have all worried about the Terminator, but AI is threatening us in other, more insidious ways For better or worse, artificial intelligence (AI) is inescapable. Depending on who you ask, it’s ...

We’ve all heard the warnings: Failure to embrace AI could cause you and your organization to fall behind. Yet AI data centers consume a great deal of land, energy, and water while also polluting the ...