A new analysis warns that AI facilities could be forced to stop operating because of water shortages and blackouts.

Navi Mumbai, Bengaluru, Noida, Chennai, and Hyderabad—are among the world’s top 100 highly vulnerable to physical climate ...

The Trump administration's decision to shelve a crucial $15 million federal grant jeopardises vital climate research, leaving ...

Irina Marinov, associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, leads a research community focused on understanding global climate impacts, risks, and vulnerabilities to ...

The world is getting hotter, faster. A report published last week found that human-caused global warming is now increasing by ...

Carbon emissions are embodied in the computer chips inside the data center, too. Semiconductor lithography is dependent on chemicals that have extremely high global warming potential.

Now, with the rise of AI technology, demand on power plants is increasing in large part to AI's reliance on data centers. Ali Rogin spoke with Kenza Bryan, climate reporter for the Financial Times.

According to a MarketsandMarkets report, the modular data center market is expected to grow from $29.93 billion in 2024 to $79.49 billion by 2030, driven by the need for scalable and cost ...

To help solve this puzzle, climate scientists are eagerly awaiting the first batch of operational data from NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite, PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem ...

The graph shows the global ocean heat content (OHC) for the upper 2,000 meters (6,562 feet), relative to a 1981–2010 baseline. The energy unit is zetta joules (ZJ).

Google’s future data centers will be built next to solar and wind farms Google has a new strategy for building AI data centers. by Justine Calma Dec 10, 2024, 1:31 PM PST Illustration: The Verge ...