Category : Science / Environment

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Science / Environment

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New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations thumbnail

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using...

6,000 Meters Under the Pacific, Japan Seeks Independence From China on Rare Earths thumbnail

6,000 Meters Under the Pacific, Japan Seeks

Tokyo is succeeding where the rest of the world has...

Marine Animals in the Strait of Hormuz Don’t Get a Ceasefire thumbnail

Marine Animals in the Strait of Hormuz

As ships return to the Strait of Hormuz, mines, sonar,...

A Single Strike Won’t Shut Off the Gulf’s Desalination System thumbnail

A Single Strike Won’t Shut Off the

The Gulf’s water system is built with layers of backup,...

A New Google-Funded Data Center Will Be Powered by a Massive Gas Plant thumbnail

A New Google-Funded Data Center Will Be

Documents show that one of Google’s new data centers would...

What Happens When a Nuclear Site Is Hit? thumbnail

What Happens When a Nuclear Site Is

As strikes continue on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the real danger...

The US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year thumbnail

The US Had a Big Battery Boom

Despite Donald Trump’s unrelenting attacks on renewable energy, there’s a...

Big Tech Says Generative AI Will Save the Planet. It Doesn’t Offer Much Proof thumbnail

Big Tech Says Generative AI Will Save

A new report finds that of 154 specific claims about...

Record Low Snow in the West Will Mean Less Water, More Fire, and Political Chaos thumbnail

Record Low Snow in the West Will

Snowpack levels across a wide swath of western US states...

New York Is the Latest State to Consider a Data Center Pause thumbnail

New York Is the Latest State to

Red and blue states alike have introduced legislation in recent...