DATA CENTERS EXPLAINED: What their noise, water use and growing power demand mean for you.

As communities across the Triad consider data center moratoriums, viewers asked us about the facilities’ noise, water consumption and effect on electricity rates.

Did you know most of your daily online activities rely on data centers? Here’s how it works

Early data centers ran databases, email, and web hosting, using a modest amount of power that varied throughout the day, Nikolopoulos said. Today’s data centers use considerably more electricity ...

Massive demand from AI data centers drives up computer memory prices

Computer memory prices are skyrocketing and subverting a time-tested theory that says this should not be happening.
The Conversation

Data centers don’t have to be a burden on local communities – and can even support them by generating power and repurposing waste heat

A data center is planned to occupy a vacant commercial building in Monterey Park, Calif., near homes and businesses and not far from downtown Los Angeles. Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty ...
Opinion

The Largest Data Center In California Has Been Denied Water For Cooling — Now It's Suing A Public Agency

A developer wants to combine water rights from several plots of farmland to help cool a data center. Regulators said no, and now the developer is suing.
TechCrunch

Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that’s not the same as fixing AI’s water problem

Nvidia just announced a warm-water cooling system that it says can dramatically reduce the amount of water a data center uses — eliminating “pretty much all water usage” inside the data center, ...