The explosive growth of AI computing is driving electricity demand to critical levels, causing power shortages, rising costs, and local opposition to new data centers, forcing the industry to seek sustainable solutions.
With a C$13 billion investment, Meta is building its first data centre in Canada, a 1-gigawatt facility in Sturgeon County. The move reflects the voracious demand for AI compute and raises critical issues: from data sovereignty to pressure on the har...
A Meta contractor released a rare bacterium into Cheyenne's wastewater. The city suspended all data center discharge, opening a new front in the battle over AI's water footprint. The incident exposes the structural conflict between on-premise infrast...
HVDC power is emerging as a key solution for AI data centers. According to DigiTimes, Delta Electronics expects a ramp-up in the second half of 2026, riding the wave of demand for infrastructure capable of supporting increasingly power-hungry compute...
Data center electricity demand is pushing industrial power bills through the roof. Behind the clash between steel mills and cloud providers lies a grid dynamic that will also hit organizations self-hosting Large Language Models, reshaping Total Cost ...
The SNP’s vote to freeze all new datacenter construction in Scotland could derail a key pillar of the UK’s AI strategy. With competing pressures on energy, data sovereignty, and compute power, the Scottish case exposes a structural tension that will ...
The startup closed a Series B led by Prelude Ventures to develop microwave drilling targeting rock above 400°C. Next-gen geothermal could reshape power costs and reliability for on-premise AI workloads.
In Ohio, a 141-year-old brick manufacturer saw its electricity costs jump 90% last year—largely because of the data centers multiplying across the region to feed the AI boom. It’s a rarely discussed side effect of the AI rush, with deep implications ...
