Reducing the fee will only have a marginal impact on prices while depriving the government of revenue to maintain roads.
Researcher Sasha Luccioni argues we need better emissions data and a better sense of how people are using AI in the first place.
Emails show that Elon Musk’s company is expanding its use of portable gas-fired power at its Colossus 2 site as a fight over air quality continues.
The move could save the oil company hundreds of millions, even as Texas lawmakers start looking at reining in incentives for data centers.
A new NASA map shows how the sinking of Mexico City is uneven, with areas registering up to 2 centimeters per month.
From toxic smoke and oil spills to rising emissions, poisoned soil, and damaged ecosystems, war can reshape the environment long after the fighting stops.
After scientists exposed wild fish to cocaine and a cocaine metabolite, they observed that as in the lab, fish on cocaine do not act like normal fish.
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.
Tokyo is succeeding where the rest of the world has failed, reducing its reliance on Beijing for crucial rare earth elements—thanks to an enormous underwater deposit discovered on a remote island.
In a letter obtained by WIRED, the Energy Information Administration tells two senators that it plans to develop a mandatory assessment of data centers’ energy use.