Representative Frank Pallone, the senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has formally demanded Elon Musk provide documents on the environmental and public health impacts of xAI's …
Xylem Inc. raised its full-year 2026 profit forecast on Tuesday, citing robust demand for water-treatment equipment driven by AI data center expansion. The company's second-quarter earnings beat Wall …
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is calling for all data centers to be powered by renewable energy by 2030, but energy analysts say the goal is unrealistic given current grid constrai…
The EPA ruled on July 27, 2026 that dedicated power plants supplying electricity exclusively to data centers are exempt from the Clean Air Act's Acid Rain Program, handing hyperscalers and AI infrastr…
The International Energy Agency (IEA) reports that artificial intelligence is set to drive surging electricity demand from data centres by 2025, while also offering the potential to transform how the …
Anthropic's new analysis finds no systematic rise in unemployment for workers highly exposed to AI since late 2022, despite predictions from its co-founder that half of entry-level jobs could vanish w…
Data centers consumed roughly 485 TWh in 2025, about 1.5% of global electricity, with AI-focused facilities accounting for around 155 TWh, according to Hannah Ritchie's Our World in Data analysis. A t…
SpaceX is in talks with the US Department of Defense to lease AI computing capacity in a potential multi-billion-dollar deal that would extend the company's AI infrastructure business beyond existing …
Air conditioning will drive far more electricity demand than artificial intelligence over the next decade, adding some 1,400 terawatt-hours by 2035 versus 700 terawatt-hours for data centers, accordin…
Data centers consumed around 485 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity in 2025, equivalent to 1.5% of global electricity generation, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). AI-focused data c…
Chinese President Xi Jinping declared at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai that AI development should be a global collaboration, not dominated by a single country, and announced…
Chinese President Xi Jinping said artificial intelligence 'should not be a solo performance by a single country' and called for international cooperation at the World Artificial Intelligence Conferenc…
Energy IPOs raised $12.6 billion in the first half of 2026, the highest first-half figure on record and nearly triple the $4.3 billion raised in all of 2025, driven by investor demand for companies po…
AI data centers consume vast amounts of energy and lack transparency about their environmental impact, according to a growing chorus of critics. The International Energy Agency reports that data cente…
SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son declared on Tuesday that artificial intelligence will need $5 trillion in annual investment by 2040, dismissing bubble fears as 'absurd.' Speaking at SoftBank's annual…
Envision CEO Lei Zhang announced at VivaTech in Paris that AI's biggest bottleneck is no longer silicon but energy, as Goldman Sachs forecasts US datacenter power demand to hit 31 GW by 2025 and 66 GW…
Microsoft's carbon emissions surged 25% to 20.29 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent in fiscal 2025, driven by data center construction for AI workloads, the company disclosed in its annual sustaina…
A UN University report published on June 3, 2026, reveals that the environmental costs of generative AI—including water, land, and electricity—are disproportionately borne by the Global South, while w…
The rapid expansion of AI infrastructure is creating unpredictable, rapidly fluctuating electricity demand that challenges grid stability, according to experts. Unlike traditional industrial loads, AI…
The International Energy Agency forecasts US spending on coal and gas power plants will hit $50 billion this year, driven by surging electricity demand from data centers and AI infrastructure. Final I…