HIVE Digital: A Promising AI Pivot With Giga Factory-Sized Risks

HIVE Digital Technologies is pivoting from Bitcoin mining to AI infrastructure, focusing on its BUZZ HPC segment. Read why I ...
PCMag

I Clustered Two Nvidia DGX Spark AI Boxes in My Living Room. Here's What Happened

Daisy-chaining two of Dell's Nvidia GB10 DGX Spark systems didn't just pump up my home AI lab—it fundamentally changed how I ...
InfoWorld

10 MCP servers to connect LLMs with databases

Model Context Protocol (MCP) has gained considerable momentum as a standard connector between LLM-powered tools and local systems, internal and external APIs, and data sources. From major clouds to ...
The Boston Globe

Energy, water use, and pollution by data centers is expected to double in four years

WASHINGTON — The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world’s largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, which also predicts their water and ...
Snopes.com

Will Utah data center use 16B gallons of water and span almost 3 Manhattans? What to know

In spring 2026, social media users spread a rumor that a new data center in Utah would use about 16 billion gallons of water a year and that the center would be 2.7 times the size of Manhattan. Utah ...
The Conversation

How much water and power will AI data centres use in Australia? Ironically, we don’t have the data to know

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 ...
Reason

Data Centers Use Less Water Than Almond Farms—and Do More Good

California's almond farms consume 4.2 billion gallons of waters per day, according to Reason's Christian Britschgi. Data centers consume just 46 million gallons per day. Those numbers will certainly ...
Sports Illustrated

NFL Playoff Odds: Using Odds to Predict the 2026-27 NFL Playoff Picture

The NFL schedule has been released, so it's time to look ahead to the upcoming season and predict who's going to be competing in the postseason. Betting odds are available for the 2026 NFL campaign, ...
CNET

Google Doubles Down on AI Creativity With Updates Coming to Flow and Flow Music

Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life and how to make the most of it. This includes writing about consumer AI products and their real-world impact, from ...
The Verge

Use this map to find the data centers in your backyard

Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. is a policy reporter at The Verge ...
Futurism

Electric Company Says It’s Cutting Off an Entire Town So It Can Sell All Its Power to Data Centers

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The ...
Science Daily

Scientists just found a way to store massive data using light in 3 dimensions

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 ...