Engineers from MIT say that stacking circuit components on top of each other could be the answer to creating more ...

Read the MIT Technology Review analysis: “We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.” IRA FLATOW: You can’t help but notice that AI is increasingly everywhere, right ...

Data centers accounted for about 1.5 percent of global electricity consumption in 2024, an amount expected to double by 2030 because of AI use The electricity consumption of data centres is projected ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Department of Energy is amping up its funding presence in fusion energy generation through private sector collaboration and by ...

Researchers have unveiled an “evapolectric” device that pulls energy from the evaporation of water, producing significantly more electrical power than previous moisture-based energy technologies. The ...

Being more judicious in which AI models we use for tasks could potentially save 31.9 terawatt-hours of energy this year alone – equivalent to the output of five nuclear reactors. Tiago da Silva Barros ...

Even if you don’t know the exact numbers, the charge that “AI is bad for the environment” is well-documented, bubbling from sources ranging from mainstream press to pop-science YouTube channels to ...