The faceoff over Meta's planned data center in the Netherlands highlights the emerging fight over how to sustain cloud computing and data streaming while protecting the environment, even if these centers use renewable energy.
Google says it will no longer build custom artificial intelligence tools for speeding up oil and gas extraction, separating itself from cloud computing rivals Microsoft and Amazon.
The digital services churned out by the world’s computer centers are multiplying, but their energy use is not, thanks to cloud computing, a new study says.
A recent study, one of the first of its kind, shows that migratory birds across all of North America are on the move sooner than than ever before as the result of climate change.