Three takeaways about AI’s energy use and climate impacts
This week, we published Power Hungry, a package all about AI and energy. At the…
A new atomic clock in space could help us measure elevations on Earth
In 2003, engineers from Germany and Switzerland began building a bridge across the Rhine River…
The Download: the desert data center boom, and how to measure Earth’s elevations
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
Great potential exists for solar cells on grain fields or pastures, finds study
Photovoltaic systems are increasingly being installed not only on roofs but also on open land.…
By putting AI into everything, Google wants to make it invisible
If you want to know where AI is headed, this year’s Google I/O has you…
The Download: Google’s AI mission, and America’s reliance on natural gas
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
AI can do a better job of persuading people than we do
Millions of people argue with each other online every day, but remarkably few of them…
AI could keep us dependent on natural gas for decades to come
The thousands of sprawling acres in rural northeast Louisiana had gone unwanted for nearly two…
AI’s energy impact is still small—but how we handle it is huge
With seemingly no limit to the demand for artificial intelligence, everyone in the energy, AI,…
AI is moving fast. Climate policy provides valuable lessons for how to keep it in check
Artificial intelligence (AI) might not have been created to enable new forms of sexual violence…