File - The roof of a data center is pictured in Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst) This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing you news and solutions ...

AI’s explosive growth depends on a backbone of vast energy-hungry, water intensive data centers, costing hundreds of billions of dollars in resources. The challenge—and opportunity—of the moment is ...

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Drive in almost any direction from almost any American city, and soon enough you’ll arrive at a data center—a giant white box rising from graded earth, flanked by generators and fenced like a prison ...

ASHBURN, Va.—Driving up the six-lane Route 28 in Loudoun County, Virginia, there’s a dark blue one on the left. Further up the way in a small clearing of trees, there’s a gray one on the right. Across ...

The Trump administration issued a proposal late Thursday that aims to help AI data centers get connected to the electric grid more quickly. Energy Secretary Chris Wright sent the proposal to the ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) - U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright this week directed federal energy regulators to consider a rule aimed at speeding up the connection of power-hungry data centers to ...

iFixit’s teardown explains the fascinating optical engineering in Meta’s ‘unrepairable’ $800 smartglasses. iFixit’s teardown explains the fascinating optical engineering in Meta’s ‘unrepairable’ ...

SCHOTT—a global leader in advanced optics and specialty glass—working with waveguide partner Lumus, is almost certainly the manufacturer of the waveguide optics in Meta’s Ray-Ban Display glasses.

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills. The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern ...