Tech companies are increasingly building private power plants to fuel off-grid data centers, a move some warn has reliability challenges and hurts climate goals
Tech companies are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions and other pollution.
The US EPA rules that xAI acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power its Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 data centers in the Memphis area
Win for Memphis activists who say ‘Colossus’ facilities add extra pollution to already overburdened communities
Study: AI's 2025 power demand could hit 23GW, above 2024 Bitcoin mining levels, and AI carbon emissions could hit 32.6M to 79.7M tons, compared to NYC's 50M
A new study estimates the environmental impact of AI in 2025 and calls for more transparency from companies on their pollution and water consumption.
OpenAI says ChatGPT will now avoid em dashes if users tell it to; em dashes have become telltale signs that supposedly signals text written by AI
Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules The Economic Times : OpenAI fixes ChatGPT's em dash problem; ‘small-but-happy-win’ says Sam Altman Kahekashan / The Hans India ...
At the White House dinner, Zuckerberg said Meta plans to spend “something like at least $600B” through 2028 on data centers and other infrastructure in the US
but good: if he wants to waste this much money on AI this will probably bankrupt his wretched company. time it went away, anyway. — just a pity about the pollution it will cause... [embedded post]
Memphis grants xAI an air permit to operate 15 gas turbines at its Boxtown campus until 2027, despite protests and a potential NAACP lawsuit over pollution
“This isn't just an environmental issue — it's a public health emergency,” wrote State Rep. Justin Pearson. @wired.com : Colossus allowed xAI to quickly catch up to rivals OpenAI, Google, and Anthropi...
An in-depth look at the impact of stratospheric pollution from satellite reentries on the ozone layer, as Starlink and others launch more internet satellites
Elon Musk's SpaceX has more than 7,000 satellites in orbit to create its Starlink internet constellation.
Researchers estimate that air pollution related to data centers from Google, Microsoft, and Meta resulted in $5.4B in US public health costs from 2019 to 2023
Research suggests the price of treating illnesses related to building of computing infrastructure in the US is on the rise
An energy crunch is forcing continued coal burning in a low-income area in North Omaha, Nebraska, as Meta and Google data centers strain regional power supply
An energy crunch forces continued coal burning in a low-income area as data centers strain the regional power supply — https://archive.ph/... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... … Bluesky: Shannon ...
An energy crunch is forcing continued coal burning in a low-income area in North Omaha, Nebraska, as Meta and Google data centers strain regional power supply
An energy crunch forces continued coal burning in a low-income area as data centers strain the regional power supply. Mastodon: @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green and @Snoro@mastodon.social . LinkedIn: Eri...