This university campus is heated by an AI data center. Your home could be next

AI’s energy problem may also be its solution, as cities are increasingly exploring opportunities to repurpose excess heat ...

All these data centers are gonna fry my electric bill … right?

Data centers are getting a lot of heat right now. There’s neighborhood pushback against them for water usage and ...
Crude Oil Prices

The AI Boom Is Pushing Data Centers Past the Thermal Wall

The rapid deployment of high-performance computing and AI workloads is creating extreme thermal densities in data centers that conventional air-cooling systems can no longer efficiently manage. The ...
Los Angeles Business Journal

Can’t Stand the Heat? Send it to the Kitchen

Karman, a Signal Hill startup, seeks to redistribute data center heat to nearby homes and businesses. Innovation: Karman, founded by David Tearse and CJ Kalra, produces the HPU device to redistribute ...
U.S. News & World Report

Explainer-Keeping Cool: Heat a Key Challenge for Data Centers and AI

STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) -The global boom in data centers as companies increasingly outsource information storage and ramp up use of energy-intensive artificial intelligence is creating a key ...
Time

Data Centers are Lousy for the Planet. Should We Move Them to Space?

Prime Data Center in Vernon, Calif. on Dec. 25, 2025. Prime Data Center in Vernon, Calif. on Dec. 25, 2025.Los Angeles Times—Getty Images Editor at Large Data centers are hot. Literally. In the U.S., ...