HIVE Digital: A Promising AI Pivot With Giga Factory-Sized Risks

HIVE Digital Technologies is pivoting from Bitcoin mining to AI infrastructure, focusing on its BUZZ HPC segment. Read why I ...
PCMag

I Clustered Two Nvidia DGX Spark AI Boxes in My Living Room. Here's What Happened

Daisy-chaining two of Dell's Nvidia GB10 DGX Spark systems didn't just pump up my home AI lab—it fundamentally changed how I ...
Tech Xplore

Geospatial upgrade gives TabPFN sharper local predictions on datasets up to 70,000 rows

A new development in data science has given one popular machine learning tool an improved sense of place, enabling it to make ...
SiliconANGLE

Tiger Data launches PostgreSQL extension designed for AI agents

Tiger Data today introduced a managed PostgreSQL database service designed specifically for AI agents, saying conventional database architectures are poorly suited to a future in which software is ...
InfoWorld

10 MCP servers to connect LLMs with databases

Model Context Protocol (MCP) has gained considerable momentum as a standard connector between LLM-powered tools and local systems, internal and external APIs, and data sources. From major clouds to ...
The Boston Globe

Energy, water use, and pollution by data centers is expected to double in four years

WASHINGTON — The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world’s largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, which also predicts their water and ...
Snopes.com

Will Utah data center use 16B gallons of water and span almost 3 Manhattans? What to know

In spring 2026, social media users spread a rumor that a new data center in Utah would use about 16 billion gallons of water a year and that the center would be 2.7 times the size of Manhattan. Utah ...
PBS

Energy, water use and pollution of AI and data centers rival most countries

WASHINGTON (AP) — The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world's largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, which also predicts their water and ...
The Conversation

How much water and power will AI data centres use in Australia? Ironically, we don’t have the data to know

Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...
9to5google

Google Flow AI video editing & music tools getting dedicated apps and Omni upgrades

As its competition takes a break, Google is doubling down on video generation through Gemini, with Omni upgrades for it filmmaker and musician-focused Flow AI tools, as well as dedicated mobile apps ...
CNET

Google Doubles Down on AI Creativity With Updates Coming to Flow and Flow Music

Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life and how to make the most of it. This includes writing about consumer AI products and their real-world impact, from ...
Ars Technica

Lake Tahoe residents lose energy supplier to data center boom

The tourist and ski resort town of Lake Tahoe must scramble to find a new energy supplier by May 2027—a situation that stems in part from a Nevada utility company devoting more power capacity to new ...