Global Study Maps Mounting Energy Water Material and Land Demands of Artificial Intelligence
A systematic review of 46 environmental studies reveals that artificial intelligence relies on an interconnected resource nexus of electricity, cooling ...
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Liquid Cooling Keeps 51.2 Tbit/s Co-Packaged Optics Within Safe Temperatures
A combined simulation and experimental study shows a manifold microchannel liquid-cooling design keeps a 51.2 Tbit/s co-packaged optics system within ...
Neural Network Tuning Reveals Which Cooling Metrics Rule High-Density Data Centers
A sensitivity analysis using MLP and RBF neural networks on synthetic cooling data finds that temperature difference, airflow, and mass ...
Review maps the state of the art in uninterruptible power supply technologies
A new open-access review in Discover Applied Sciences surveys the state of the art in uninterruptible power supply technologies, from ...
Laser pulses and a phase-change material fix faulty silicon photonic switches with zero static power
Scientists used laser pulses on the phase-change material Sb2Se3 to repair phase errors in a 4 × 4 silicon photonic ...
New DARPA-funded project aims to cut AI energy use by up to half
A DARPA-funded University of Michigan-led project aims to cut AI energy use by up to half through a new mathematical ...
Ternary Hybrid Nanofluids Show Superior Cooling Power for AI Chips in Simulation
A new numerical study reports that a ternary hybrid nanofluid of aluminum oxide, copper oxide, and graphene nanoplatelets in ethylene ...
Research report: State and county approaches to data centers: patterns in the first generation
An exploratory study finds US states split between incentivizing and disincentivizing approaches to data centers, often overriding local zoning control.
Forty years on, human-centered AI faces off against the machine
A landmark editorial marking AI & Society's 40th anniversary argues that machine-centered development has steered artificial intelligence away from its ...
Research report: Small modular reactors for data centers: deployment and nuclear fuel requirements
A Brazilian modelling study estimates that three small modular reactor designs would require different unit counts, initial uranium inventories and ...
Global study finds 25% of 9,347 operational data centers in water-stressed areas
A global analysis found that about 25% of 9,347 operational data centers are in areas where water demand exceeds supply ...
Silicon Photonics Chip Hits 3.2 Terabits Per Second for AI Data Traffic
Researchers at Zhejiang University have demonstrated a scalable 3.2-terabit-per-second silicon photonic interconnect that combines hybrid wavelength-port multiplexing with adaptive wavelength ...
Hybrid Power Choice Policies Emerge as Data Centers Drive US Electricity Demand
The significance of the 34 million megawatt-hours figure becomes clearer when placed in historical context. In the mid-1990s, before the ...
Reinforcement Learning Tames Slow Hard Drives by Cutting Costly Rewrite Operations
A reinforcement learning framework called RLFC cuts tail latency by over 20 percent and extends SSD endurance in hybrid storage ...
Why the Human Brain’s 20-Watt Budget Could Reshape Energy-Hungry AI
A sweeping new review maps seven interacting energy constraints in large-scale AI and argues that resource-allocation strategies from the 20-watt ...
Salty, Dirty Water Could Quench Data Centers’ Thirst for Cooling
University of Texas at Austin researchers show that existing desalination technology can turn salty groundwater and oilfield wastewater into cooling ...
AI Agents Learn to Slash Cloud Waste in New Serverless Scheduling Breakthrough
Researchers in India have enhanced a serverless computing simulator with a realistic virtual machine layer and a multi-agent reinforcement learning ...
China’s AI Ambitions Collide With Its Own Climate Promises, Study Warns
A new review argues that China's twin goals of AI dominance and climate leadership form a genuine contradiction, warning that ...
Compact quantum computer for server centers
Researchers build smallest quantum computer yet based on industry standards Over the past three decades, fundamental groundwork for building quantum ...
