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Why Some AI Models Spew 50 Times More Greenhouse Gas to Answer the Same Question

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2026-03-07 17:00:55

Like it or not, large language models have quickly become embedded into our lives. And due to their intense energy and water needs, they might also be causing us to spiral even faster into climate chaos. Some LLMs, though, might be releasing more planet-warming pollution than others, a new study finds. Queries made to some models generate up to 50 times more carbon emissions than others, according to a new study published in Frontiers in Communication. Unfortunately, and perhaps unsurprisingly,

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How Disney is using Unreal Engine 5 to add major upgrades to Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run

venturebeat.com Giancarlo Valdes 2026-03-11 12:21:05

Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run was a landmark moment for Walt Disney Imagineering when it opened in 2019. It was the first Disney ride that allowed guests to directly control their experience and interact with the story. But for the next Smugglers Run mission, the company is going one step further and making the ride feel a lot more like a traditional video game, complete with branching choices and sophisticated enemies. WDI worked closely with visual effects studio Industrial Light & Magic (

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NASA Moves Ahead With Private ISS Mission After Air Leak Repairs

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2026-03-13 16:10:13

NASA is looking to launch Axiom Space’s fourth private mission to the International Space Station (ISS) this week, after recent attempts to repair air leaks in the Russian module appear to have been successful. Last week, the space agency abruptly postponed the launch of Axiom Mission 4, which was set to launch on June 11. NASA cited a new pressure signal in a segment of the Zvezda service module that’s been leaking air, very slowly, for nearly six years. In a follow-up statement on Saturday, N

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Biofuels Policy, a Mainstay of American Agriculture, a Failure for the Climate

news.ycombinator.com Georgina Gustin 2026-03-14 17:02:22

The American Midwest is home to some of the richest, most productive farmland in the world, enabling its transformation into a vast corn- and soy-producing machine—a conversion spurred largely by decades-long policies that support the production of biofuels. But a new report takes a big swing at the ethanol orthodoxy of American agriculture, criticizing the industry for causing economic and social imbalances across rural communities and saying that the expansion of biofuels will increase greenh

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NASA Delays Private Mission to ISS as Russian Module Leak Worsens

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2026-03-15 20:15:26

A concerning development with an air leak on the International Space Station (ISS) has prompted NASA to indefinitely delay the launch of Axiom Mission 4 for ongoing investigations. On Thursday, NASA announced that it was working with Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, to understand a “new pressure signature” in a segment of the Zvezda service module. As a result, NASA and Axiom Space postponed the launch of the company’s fourth private mission to the ISS, which was scheduled for Wednesday, witho

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The EPA Wants to Roll Back Emissions Controls on Power Plants

wired.com Molly Taft 2026-03-19 05:36:25

The US Environmental Protection Agency moved to roll back emissions standards for power plants, the second-largest source of CO 2 emissions in the country, on Wednesday, claiming that the American power sector does not “contribute significantly” to air pollution. “The bottom line is that the EPA is trying to get out of the climate change business,” says Ryan Maher, a staff attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. The announcement comes just days after the National Oceanic and Atmospher

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What’s driving electricity demand? It isn’t just AI and data centers.

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-11-12 21:00:00

Take the US, for example. The IEA report points to other research showing that the 10 states hosting the most data center growth saw a 10% increase in electricity demand between 2019 and 2023. Demand in the other 40 states declined by about 3% over the same period. One caveat here is that nobody knows for sure what’s going to happen with data centers in the future, particularly those needed to run AI. Projections are all over the place, and small changes could drastically alter the amount of en

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Why Some AI Models Spew 50 Times More Greenhouse Gas to Answer the Same Question

How Disney is using Unreal Engine 5 to add major upgrades to Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run

NASA Moves Ahead With Private ISS Mission After Air Leak Repairs

Biofuels Policy, a Mainstay of American Agriculture, a Failure for the Climate

NASA Delays Private Mission to ISS as Russian Module Leak Worsens

The EPA Wants to Roll Back Emissions Controls on Power Plants

What’s driving electricity demand? It isn’t just AI and data centers.

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Why Some AI Models Spew 50 Times More Greenhouse Gas to Answer the Same Question

How Disney is using Unreal Engine 5 to add major upgrades to Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run

NASA Moves Ahead With Private ISS Mission After Air Leak Repairs

Biofuels Policy, a Mainstay of American Agriculture, a Failure for the Climate

NASA Delays Private Mission to ISS as Russian Module Leak Worsens

The EPA Wants to Roll Back Emissions Controls on Power Plants

What’s driving electricity demand? It isn’t just AI and data centers.

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