If you hang out in any even vaguely AI-skeptical parts of the Internet, you’ve probably stumbled on plenty of memes and posts premised on data centers’ insatiable thirst for water to power evaporative ...

Imagine a busy train station. Cameras monitor everything, from how clean the platforms are to whether a docking bay is empty or occupied. These cameras feed into an AI system that helps manage station ...

Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...

Manual is the sixth book from Hyperpress since 2021, and creating it was both “a technical exploration and a conceptual exercise to think about our discipline and the notion of print,” Ou tells Fast ...

Data centers have traditionally depended on uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems and backup generators to keep them online during a power cut, grid event, or natural disaster. But the critical ...

Americans have soured on data centers, polls show, and the sentiment is profoundly bipartisan. How will that change our politics? Americans have soured on data centers, polls show, and the sentiment ...

Atlanta — It is a sunny afternoon in Atlanta, Georgia, but inside Carolyn Kayne's 3,000-square-foot home, it is cold. "I'm walking around in a ski suit trying to stay warm in the winter," Kayne told ...

Keystone Trade Center Building 6 (center; purple detail), seen in January 2026, is set to become an Amazon data center at the Keystone Trade Center industrial development in Falls Township, Pa.

SpaceX wants to put up to a million data centers in orbit. There are a few technological hurdles standing in the way. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world ...

A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...

If you drive through West Texas toward Fort Stockton, you’ll see a plot of land where Pacifico Energy wants to build a massive private power plant. The goal is to provide energy to AI data centers.

A broad majority of Americans have heard about data centers – the often-sprawling computing facilities that are popping up nationwide. But the public has mixed opinions about data centers’ impact in ...