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How concerned are Americans about AI’s environmental impact? This new poll reveals the data (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-16 | tags: artificial intelligence, data centers, environmental impact

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Saving Jet Fuel (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-15 | by Mark Litwintschik | tags: scikit-decide, openap, boeing 787-9

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US AI data centers projected to become the fifth-largest natural gas consumer in the world by 2035 — consumption to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day as demand for compute increases (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-15 | by Jowi Morales | tags: ai data centers, natural gas consumption, gas turbine generators

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Making Teenagers Read Newspapers. A Nationwide Experiment in French High Schools (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-08 | by Simon Briole | tags: media literacy, randomized controlled trial, french high schools

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says 38,000 ChatGPT queries use as much water as the production of one almond — says data centers use no more water than an office building (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-03 | by Jowi Morales | get Brita water filter pitcher → | tags: sam altman, openai, chatgpt

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How much energy does agentic AI actually use? One scientist tracked every prompt he sent (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-03 | get Kill A Watt EZ P4460 electricity usage monitor → | tags: agentic ai, zeke hausfather, claude code

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How much of a problem is AI’s water use? (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-27 | get KLIM Cool laptop cooling fan vacuum → | tags: data centers, water consumption, texas

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US data centers tripled annual water consumption to 17B gallons (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-25 | get Flume 2 smart home water monitor → | tags: data centers, water consumption, electricity generation

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Are underwater data centers sustainable for AI infrastructure? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: underwater data centers, artificial intelligence, ocean

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Cherokee Nation bans hyperscale data centers on its lands, won't support projects without consultation — energy and water consumption, air quality, noise, and cultural resource protection among concerns (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-17 | by Luke James | tags: hyperscale data centers, cherokee nation, chuck hoskin jr

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Study links coffee consumption to metabolic health and sex hormones (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: coffee, metabolic health, sex hormones

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Texas Halts Data Center Connections To Power Grid Amid Overwhelming Demand (slashdot.org)

2026-08-05 | tags: texas, power grid, ars technica

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Data centers on track to consume 20% of US power by 2035 (techspot.com)

2026-07-22 | by Shawn Knight | tags: data centers, bloombergnef, ai facilities

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Gen Z Appears to Be Reversing No-Drinking Trend, Now Lurching Toward Alcoholism (futurism.com)

2026-07-20 | by Frank Landymore | tags: iwsr, gen z, beverage industry

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A Popular Weight-Loss Trick Might Actually Make You Eat More (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: weight loss, water intake, calorie consumption

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Elon Musk's Starlink releases smaller and lighter V5 residential kit — offers speeds of up to 375 Mbps and almost half the power consumption of V4 (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-15 | by Jowi Morales | tags: deg deg, hour, mbps

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1Password moves into AI cost management, betting that token spend is the next enterprise budget crisis (venturebeat.com)

2026-07-14 | tags: consumption, henry, management

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Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-12 | by Dan Robinson | tags: consumption, electricity, grid

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Ireland’s data centers consumed nearly as much electricity as every home in the country combined in 2025 — server farms gulped 23% of national power despite years of grid restrictions (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-12 | by Etiido Uko | tags: center, centers, consumption

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AI servers will consume more power than all conventional data center hardware combined by 2027 — global data center electricity consumption set to grow by 26% this year, Gartner forecasts (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-09 | by Luke James | tags: center, consumption, data center

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AI Data Centers Use Far More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-07-03 | get Water Cooling System for Data Centers → | tags: data centers, power plants, tech giants

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Are smart bulbs more expensive to run than standard LEDs? (engadget.com)

2026-06-27 | by Lawrence Bonk | get Smart LED Bulb → | tags: smart bulbs, led bulbs, wifi

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Is your phone charger wasting electricity when it's not charging? (engadget.com)

2026-06-26 | by Lawrence Bonk | get Smart Power Strip → | tags: phone charger, standby power, energy consumption

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Nvidia announces liquid cooling system that runs ‘hotter than a hot tub’ — promises to reduce electricity consumption and cut water use by up to 100%, but sustainability challenges remain (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-23 | by Jowi Morales | get Nvidia Liquid Cooling System → | tags: nvidia, rubin chips, liquid cooling

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Power for energy-guzzling AI data centers is getting fast-tracked thanks to federal regulators (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-22 | get Smart Power Strip → | tags: federal energy regulatory commission, ai data centers, power grid

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Ludicrous $999 Steam game lasts just 10 minutes — ‘Congratulations On Your Purchase’ is pure conspicuous consumption with its golden ticket Steam Achievement (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-22 | by Mark Tyson | get Steam Achievement Trophy → | tags: steam, congratulations on your purchase, pc gaming

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More than 75 data center build-outs worth $130 billion have been successfully blocked in the first three months of 2026 — bipartisan opposition mounts nationwide over fears of soaring power and water costs (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-13 | by Jowi Morales | get Data Center Cooling System → | tags: microsoft, amazon, data center

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AI is set to consume up to 600 billion gallons of water by 2030 — rising energy consumption primarily to blame as data center power demands rise (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-11 | by Jon Martindale | get Data Center Cooling Fan → | tags: center, centers, cooling

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Industry coalition urges Trump administration to take urgent action as AI data centers' extreme memory consumption threatens other industries — AI-driven memory chip shortage could raise prices in automotive, medical, telecommunications sectors (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-05 | by Etiido Uko | get High-Performance Memory Module → | tags: administration, capacity, memory

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Microsoft CEO says new AI data centers use as little water annually as a restaurant — closed-loop cooling system aims to slash consumption from millions of gallons as AI infrastructure faces mounting environmental scrutiny (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-04 | by Etiido Uko | get Microsoft Azure Water Cooling Kit → | tags: centers, cooling, data centers