AI Data Centers Face Water Backlash — Can Air Solve the Crisis?

AI data centers face growing backlash over water use. Atmospheric water harvesting offers a new way to generate sustainable ...
MIT Technology Review

Using big data for good

In pet genetics, cancer research, and beyond, Charlie Lieu, MBA ’05, SM ’05, has spent her career harnessing massive data sets to make the world better for everyone. A photogenic green-eyed Russian ...
CNET

Microsoft Researchers Figure Out How to Store Data Inside Glass Using Lasers

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...
syracuse.com

Did Trump call in to C-SPAN using a fake name?

President Donald Trump did not, in fact, call in to C-SPAN on Friday using “John Barron” as a fake name, the network said. A man who identified himself with that name called in to C-SPAN after the ...
NPR

AI data centers use a lot of electricity. How it could affect your power bill

AI data centers require incredible amounts of energy to run. NPR's Planet Money investigates how that demand for power might affect your electric bills. Tech companies invested hundreds of billions of ...
PBS

How online retailers are using AI to adjust prices by mining your personal data

If you’re going online to buy some last-minute gifts this holiday season, there’s a chance the price you pay will be influenced by what’s known as “surveillance pricing.” Some retailers are using ...
Ars Technica

Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans

Senators launched a probe Tuesday demanding that tech companies explain exactly how they plan to prevent data center projects from increasing electricity bills in communities where prices are already ...
Forbes

Using Agents To Intelligently Traverse Graph-Based Data Structures

Graphs are everywhere. From technology to finance, they often model valuable information such as people, networks, biological pathways and more. Often, scientists and technologists need to come up ...
The New York Times

On the Labor and Delivery Floor, a Reporter Sees a Solution

C-sections can be lifesaving, but sometimes the procedure can be overused. Data helped show how a hospital decreased its rates of the operation in healthy first-time mothers. By Sarah Kliff Times ...
C&EN

Overcoming Small Data Limitations in Materials Informatics: Interpretable Predictive Modeling of Optical Limiting Efficiency Using the CORRELATO Algorithm

Russian Academy of Sciences, FSBIS Institute of Physiologically Active Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1, Severny Proezd, Chernogolovka 142432, Russian Federation Russian Academy of ...
WSB-TV

Data center set to use 6 water towers worth of water per day in Georgia

COWETA COUNTY, Ga. — Massive data centers proposed for metro Atlanta expect to use millions of gallons of water per day. Some of those data centers are planning to use more water than entire Georgia ...