As nations posture over access to rare earth deposits, scientists say these coveted materials are hiding in plain sight – and can be harvested without any conventional mining at all. In a lab in ...

AI data centers require incredible amounts of energy to run. NPR's Planet Money investigates how that demand for power might affect your electric bills. Tech companies invested hundreds of billions of ...

The Meta data center in Richland Parish has, since the announcement of its construction in December 2024, been rightly regarded as a major economic boon to one of the state’s poorest regions. In ...

Cipher Mining Inc. (CIFR) recently entered the AI data center race with major deals with hyperscaler customers. The bitcoin miner is part of a group of companies transitioning from running data ...

A new study estimates the environmental impact of AI in 2025 and calls for more transparency from companies on their pollution and water consumption. A new study estimates the environmental impact of ...

One afternoon in June 2024, I stood up against the fence of a sprawling industrial facility a few miles outside of Corsicana, Texas. Over a metal gate, I watched a bright yellow excavator claw at the ...

Georgia reportedly has the second-most energy consumption from crypto mining in the U.S. Tax subsidies and low power rates attract large operators like CleanSpark. Counties consider data center ...

When the Coalition of Communities of Color (CCC) began a multi-year collaboration with the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), they worked together to modernize a critical public health information source: ...

Current Climate brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability every Monday. Sign up to get it in your inbox. Anyone holding out hope that increases in electric power prices could ...

Credit: Image generated by VentureBeat with FLUX-pro-1.1-ultra A quiet revolution is reshaping enterprise data engineering. Python developers are building production data pipelines in minutes using ...