Mapping monsters: Data release unveils all-sky views of supermassive black holes

Data released by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) marks a landmark expansion in the study of accreting supermassive black ...
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Elevate your data skills: master DSUM now

In this DSUM tutorial, learn how the DSUM function simplifies filtering in Excel, particularly with multiple criteria. The ...
The Next Web

Kevin O’Leary says data centres use less water than golf courses. The numbers are more complicated.

O’Leary compared data centre water use to golf courses. Golf uses 4.6x more today, but data centre demand could overtake it by 2028 on current projections. Kevin O’Leary is making the golf course ...
CNN

Energy Dept. directs data centers to use backup generators during heat wave, freeing up power for AC

As a dangerous heat wave bakes major East Coast cities, Energy Secretary Chris Wright directed data centers in the mid-Atlantic this week to use their backup power supplies instead of using ...
GeekWire

Microsoft says its data centers use 90% less water than its earliest facilities as public concern grows

Microsoft announced Wednesday that over the past two decades, it has become dramatically more efficient in its use of water to cool data centers, slashing its consumption rate by 90% compared to ...
TechCrunch

Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that’s not the same as fixing AI’s water problem

Nvidia just announced a warm-water cooling system that it says can dramatically reduce the amount of water a data center uses — eliminating “pretty much all water usage” inside the data center, ...
E&E

US data centers’ electricity use could double by 2030, DOE lab says

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory estimated the facilities could use roughly 11.8 percent of U.S. power by the end of the decade. Data centers could more than double their share of U.S. power and ...
Ars Technica

When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket

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 ...
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 ...
PBS

Energy, water use and pollution of AI and data centers rival most countries

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...
Reuters

EU plans energy standards for data centres amid concerns over soaring power use

EU eyes minimum efficiency rules for data centres Capacity set to double by 2030, lifting power demand Sustainability label planned amid energy concerns BRUSSELS, June 3 (Reuters) - The European Union ...
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 ...