A backlash against AI data centers has escalated to violence, including a shooting at an Indianapolis councilmember's home and death threats in Salix, Iowa, but much of the panic is based on outdated …
Microsoft has roughly 2.2 million AI chips installed in its global datacentres, far below the 1.8 million chips it reportedly targeted for the end of 2024 and less than half of what some experts expec…
A coordinated national demonstration against AI data centers, organized by communities across the United States, staged nearly 150 protests in 42 states last month, with water consumption a chief conc…
Microsoft, Amazon and Google's collective carbon emissions rose nearly 20% to 119 million metric tonnes in the past year, driven by datacentre construction for AI, reaching about a third of France's e…
A widely reported claim that each ChatGPT prompt uses a 500 mL bottle of water is based on a miscalculation that overestimates water usage by 50 to 250 times, according to a new analysis. The original…