As Raleigh prepares to implement water restrictions on Monday amid the ongoing drought, attention is turning to how much water large data centers could use and how that demand is managed during dry ...

The US federal government’s central energy information agency is planning to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use, according to a letter seen by WIRED.

Multiple Chinese online platforms are openly selling tutorials on how to use AI to generate pornographic videos. For as little as 9.9 yuan ($1.4), users can purchase prompts to feed chatbots and ...

A hot potato: GitHub has announced that starting April 24, the company will begin using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve its AI models unless they opt out.

The Nunavut land use plan still hasn’t been signed 19 years after work on it first started. As that process drags on, some Nunavummiut are nervous about the damage being done to their lands. The CBC's ...

Abstract: Static analysis tools such as Pylint generate hundreds or thousands of warnings in Python projects. While each warning is useful in isolation, it is far less clear how these warnings relate ...

Google has signed agreements with five U.S. electric utilities in states from Arkansas to Minnesota to curtail its electricity use during periods of peak demand, the company said on March 19, in its ...

Data centres use huge amounts of energy and chips are in high demand – could brain cells be the answer? Australia-based start-up Cortical Labs has announced it is building two “biological” data ...

The Electric Power Research Institute’s electricity-demand estimates are about 60 percent higher than the group anticipated two years ago. Data centers could double their current share of U.S. power ...

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 ...