Engineers from MIT say that stacking circuit components on top of each other could be the answer to creating more ...

Cutting “please” won’t save the planet. The real environmental cost of AI lies in data centres, energy demand and ...

Read the MIT Technology Review analysis: “We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.” IRA FLATOW: You can’t help but notice that AI is increasingly everywhere, right ...

As drones survey forests, robots navigate warehouses and sensors monitor city streets, more of the world's decision-making is ...

Data centers accounted for about 1.5 percent of global electricity consumption in 2024, an amount expected to double by 2030 because of AI use The electricity consumption of data centres is projected ...

“People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses,” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, wrote in an aside in a long blog post last week. The average query, Altman wrote, uses 0.34 ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Department of Energy is amping up its funding presence in fusion energy generation through private sector collaboration and by ...

Even if you don’t know the exact numbers, the charge that “AI is bad for the environment” is well-documented, bubbling from sources ranging from mainstream press to pop-science YouTube channels to ...