Data centers are a huge burden on natural resources. Some companies think the solution is to send them to space.

Data centers make up significant proportions of both companies’ water use. In 2023, Meta consumed 813 million gallons of water globally (3.1 billion liters) – 95% of which, 776 million gallons (2.9 ...

Data centers like those operated by Amazon Web Services aggregate computing resources and leverage innovations to maximize energy efficiency. We talk with AWS’ Shannon Kellogg about the company ...

Legal scholars suggest revisiting a core tenet of electricity regulations and taking cues from how officials manage scarce resources such as water in the West.

With all the focus on power consumption, the water consumption of data centers has been somewhat overlooked. However, red flags are being raised in the United Kingdom, and those concerns that have ...

Electricity rates for individuals and small businesses could rise sharply as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other technology ...

Data center operators continually struggle to secure low-cost, reliable power. Data centers in the U.S. use more than 90 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, and consumption is ...

Data centers — which house servers that provide computing power and the fans and cooling units needed to keep the equipment from overheating — are energy-intensive facilities that operate 24/7.

More communities and politicians are pushing back against data centers — vital yet sometimes controversial facilities underpinning our digital lives and the AI explosion. Why it matters: More ...

Based on the definition of a nontiered data center, even a broom closet in a remote location with a server inside qualifies as such.

Another company looking to take a data center management approach is IO – which sells modular data centers that are meant to be put together like Lego building blocks as customers need more ...

The announcement reflected the hunger for data centers across industries and a yearslong push to increase data capacity. Ellison noted that the partnership had been in the works for years.