Net-zero emission goals went out the window with AI.

We here at the Department of Energy wanted to thank you for being conscientious about your energy usage this summer. Your efforts haven’t gone unno...

Meta, YouTube and other sites collected more data than most users realized, a new report by the Federal Trade Commission finds.

As the hype for generative models has been building, so has the colloquial corrective.

Tech companies have been obfuscating the emissions of their AI data centers by using dodgy energy certificates in their calculations.

All seven independent directors on 23andMe's board resigned on Tuesday through a pointed letter addressed to CEO Anne Wojcicki. Here's why.

FORT MEADE, Md. — In one of the more unique public proactive transparency record releases for the National Security Agency (NSA) to date, NSA has released a digital copy of a lecture that then-Capt.

Part One of "Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People" presented by Capt. Grace Hopper at NSA in 1982.

Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official figures

Good news, everyone! The Three Mile Island power plant, site of the worst nuclear disaster in US history, is restarting to power AI for Microsoft! [Press release; Washington Post, archive; Bloomber…

To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.

Chat GPT:s väldokumenterade otillförlitlighet hör till de minsta problemen som vidhäftar AI. Teknikens enorma kostnader, ihop med att det fortfarande inte finns några användningsområden som är i närheten av att vara lönsamma, skapar intrycket av ett korthus på väg att rasa.

DeSmog talks with AI researchers about the risks of widespread fake climate content and how to combat it.

AI needs a lot of electricity and water to stay cool in data centers. We break down the toll prompt-by-prompt to show the scale of AI’s environmental needs.

“I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.” — Joanna Maciejewska

AI needs a lot of electricity and water to stay cool in data centers. We break down the toll prompt-by-prompt to show the scale of AI’s environmental needs.

OpenAI does not want anyone to know what o1 is “thinking" under the hood.

The technology can track individuals and monitor license plates. Here's why some Arizona school districts adopted it.

In this week’s newsletter: The AI company says its ‘o1’ model is capable of reason, a key blocker in the way of truly gamechanging artificial intelligence. But is it that simple?

Eryk Salvaggio says we must dispense with myths if we are to think more clearly about what AI actually is and does.

If professional scholars don’t engage the public, charlatans and Holocaust deniers certainly will.

Can artificial intelligence really enrich fossil-fuel companies and fight climate change at the same time? The tech giant says yes.

Making Facebook and Instagram private won’t delete that data.

Every query on Chat GPT or another artificial intelligence app requires extraordinary amounts of electricity and water. Users have no way of knowing.

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Concern is rising over surging water consumption by data centres, as well Big Tech's use of carbon offsets to write off emissions, and plans for a rejig of offset rules

The world’s generation of electronic waste is rising five times faster than documented e-waste recycling, the UN’s fourth Global E-waste Monitor (GEM) revealed. The 62 million tonnes of e-waste generated in 2022 would fill 1.55 million 40 tonne trucks, roughly enough trucks to form a bumper-to-bumper line encircling the equator, according to the report from

Energy usage might be front of mind amid the AI era, but surging data center water consumption is raising serious concerns among industry stakeholders

A conversation with Chat GPT can consume a bottle of water. So why is big tech setting up AI in some of the world’s driest countries?