In June, WSJ’s Joanna Stern headed inside a data center to show just how much energy it takes to make an AI image and video. Photo: David Hall It’s harder than ever to mine bitcoin. And less ...

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As tech giants announce hundreds of billions in new data center investments, we’re witnessing a fundamental misunderstanding of our compute shortage problem. The industry’s current approach, throwing ...

Workers talk outside an Amazon Web Services data center that is under construction in Boardman, Ore., in August. Industry experts say the data centers’ hunger for power is insatiable. (Jenny Kane/AP ...

In the race to develop artificial intelligence, tech giants are building data centers that guzzle up water. That has led to problems for people who live nearby. In the race to develop artificial ...

After two and a half years we have enough data to form a clearer picture about who is using AI, what they are using it for, what they think about it, and what it means for learning. What do students ...