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Water distribution near moon’s south pole mapped using NASA SOFIA data

Data from NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was used to create a water distribution map of the area near the moon's south pole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Anti-data center protests held in 7 Wisconsin cities

Several dozen Wisconsin residents and climate advocates protested the development of artificial intelligence data centers across seven cities Dec. 1 and 2. Protesters demanded local and state ...
WISN 12 NEWS

Wisconsin lawmakers propose a second bill to regulate data centers

ROUND OF RAIN AND POSSIBLY SNOW MOVES IN. COMING UP IN WEATHERWATCH 12 MARK. >> THANK YOU. DATA CENTERS AND THEIR MASSIVE ENERGY DEMAND. SO WHO SHOULD PAY? SOME STATE LAWMAKERS ARE PROPOSING A NEW LAW ...
Commercial Observer

Data Centers Continue to Vacuum Up the Investment Dollars — Is the Return Worth It?

If 2025 will be remembered for anything — outside of the return of President Donald J. Trump and the rise of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani — it will undoubtedly be the establishment of artificial ...
Salon

The double-edged sword of AI data centers

Data center construction is increasingly becoming a political issue, with locals organizing against major tech companies like Meta, Amazon and Google, which are spending billions in a push to create ...
Forbes

How AI Is Putting Data Center Infrastructure Under Pressure

A high-density data center interior. Rising AI workloads are increasing pressure in data centers on power, cooling and uptime requirements. In a June 2025 infrastructure energy survey, Deloitte ...
UPI

Data centers boom under shroud of uncertainty, lax reporting standards

Dec. 29 (UPI) --The proliferation of data centers in the United States continued to accelerate in 2025 but experts, developers and utility companies are challenged with projecting the energy needs of ...
CNBC

From data center spas to servers in space: How the energy crunch is reshaping cloud computing

As more AI workloads are scaled into energy-intensive data centers, the pressure on power supply chains will intensify. Lenovo's Simone Larsson told CNBC there's going to be a "tipping point" where ...
SlashGear

Communities Across America Push Back On AI Data Centers

The AI boom currently underpinning the United States economy has led to a rapid expansion of data centers. These facilities are necessary for processing AI calculations, especially for cloud services, ...
Sun Sentinel

AI data centers could devour Florida’s energy, land and water | Opinion

This month, Palm Beach County zoning officials recommended the approval of a massive artificial intelligence data center that would be built a few miles west of Wellington. Known as “Project Tango,” ...
The New York Times

Data Center Surge Reaches India as American Tech Giants Invest Billions

Megacities in southern India are attracting enormous investments to help build artificial intelligence infrastructure to serve the world’s most data-hungry country. By Alex Travelli and Pragati K.B.