Data centers require substantial water and energy. But certain locations are more strained than others, mainly due to rising ...

Data centers are built for redundancy, yet one of their most common points of failure still comes from something as old ...

Can data centers be efficient and green? Learn how automation is making real-time energy and emissions control possible.

Now in its sixth year, the Cornell project team CU GeoData bridges engineering and earth sciences to design and deploy environmental sensors, including a sensor network across the Finger Lakes and a ...

Sensors to detect temperature, pressure, and gases, such as CO 2, have been around for centuries. However, the latest devices can measure a growing list of substances and process the data in real-time ...

An environmental group is leading a call for Congress to place a moratorium on the construction of new data centers used to power artificial intelligence. More than 230 groups have signed on to a ...

Google recently courted the township of Franklin, Ind., so that it could construct a giant campus to house the computer hardware that powers its internet business. But the company needed to rezone ...

Our leaders must rein in data centers’ harms to our environment, economy, and society. Until then — no more new data centers! Update (December 8, 2025): Today, more than 230 organizations nationwide ...

More than 200 environmental organizations signed a letter to Congress supporting a national moratorium on the approval and construction of new data centers. The letter, sent Monday, highlights these ...

Data centers were supposed to be the invisible backbone of the digital economy, humming quietly in the background while the world streamed, traded and increasingly ran artificial intelligence on ...