The power required by AI models is expanding uncontrollably - and that is before the models get fully deployed

Bitcoin’s energy use is controversial, but that is not the whole story

Data centers can be part of the solution, funding renewable generation and offering load balancing

Fossil fuels still dominate, and water use will be important as the grid shifts to greener energy

A study says Iceland is a less risky data center location than India. But that’s not the answer if you need a data center in India

New figures show that US data center energy is not growing as fast as was feared

If energy costs are falling, data centers will boom 

Let’s start 2016 by acknowledging that, however efficient we make them, data centers are expanding uncontrollably

Google got it right, and the UK got it very wrong in Paris

Nuclear energy is low-carbon. Should the industry be supporting it on the same terms as renewables?