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Europe’s hidden energy crisis: Data centers
Brussels zones in on digital economy’s heavy energy and water use.
In a small Dutch town, a fight with Meta over a massive data center
The faceoff over Meta's planned data center in the Netherlands highlights the emerging fight over how to sustain cloud computing and data streaming while protecting the environment, even if these centers use renewable energy.
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Melting glaciers are filling unstable lakes. And they're growing
A census of the world’s glacial lakes shows there are more than there used to be, and their water volume is growing.
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Deep Learning’s climate change problem
The “bigger is better” ethos that currently dominates the AI research agenda threatens to inflict major environmental damage in the years ahead.
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Google backs off on AI for oil and gas extraction
Google says it will no longer build custom artificial intelligence tools for speeding up oil and gas extraction, separating itself from cloud computing rivals Microsoft and Amazon.
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Cloud computing is not the energy hog that had been feared
The digital services churned out by the world’s computer centers are multiplying, but their energy use is not, thanks to cloud computing, a new study says.
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Climate change is affecting the timing of bird migration, but are birds adapting fast enough?
A recent study, one of the first of its kind, shows that migratory birds across all of North America are on the move sooner than than ever before as the result of climate change.
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