Tag results for: environment
Big Tech Dreams of Putting Data Centers in Space
For one thing, the systems he imagines process data relatively slowly compared to those on terra firma. They’d be constantly bombarded by radiation, and “obsolescence would be a...
Whistleblower claims DOGE uploaded Social Security data to unsecure cloud server
The Social Security Administration’s (SSA) chief data officer, Charles Borges, has filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded a copy...
Will the UN finally broker a treaty to end plastic pollution?
To tackle what's been the plastic "epidemic," the UN spun up a committee in 2022 tasked with brokering a legally binding global agreement. This ambitious treaty between...
Big Tech Asked for Looser Clean Water Act Permitting. Trump Wants to Give It to Them
There are currently more than 50 issued nationwide 404 permits—some of which still require pre-construction notifications—which are renewed once every five years. Many of those exemptions are for...
How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying
“People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses,” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, wrote in an aside in a long blog post last...
AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse
AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, research published Thursday in the journal Joule shows. That demand from AI, the...
