But there is another reason to add to the list: water consumption. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), a ...

Overview AI data centers have a major impact on the increase in global electricity demand.Emissions from data centers vary ...

The rapid expansion of U.S. data centers is creating environmental and public health burdens that extend well beyond electricity consumption, according to federal regulators, state agencies, and ...

A new report by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy urges regulators and utilities to make the grid operate more efficiently. There are ways, experts said, to absorb part of data ...

In 2024, Google claimed that their data centers are 1.5x more energy efficient than industry average. In 2025, Microsoft committed billions to nuclear power for AI workloads. The data center industry ...

Researchers have proposed a zeolite-based “thermal battery” system that could cut the electricity data centers spend on cooling by up to 86%, according to a preprint published on ChemRxiv. The finding ...

Telefónica Germany has deployed a new energy management and optimization platform across its data centers and other critical ...

As Rüdiger Kunze, Telefonica Germany – Head of Housing & Site Infrastructure, highlights: “Digitalization makes the data ...

Aurora’s Planning and Zoning Commission on Wednesday voted to recommend the city adopt regulations around data centers that are stricter than were originally presented by city staff.

The Electric Power Research Institute’s electricity-demand estimates are about 60 percent higher than the group anticipated ...

Minnesota Power reached an electric service agreement (ESA) with Google to power its new data center in Hermantown, Minn. The new data center will be served under an existing regulated rate structure ...