By: Mara Pusic The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and the rapid deployment of high-performance accelerated servers have dramatically transformed the energy use of data centers. U.S. data centers now make up about 4.4.% of electricity consumption nationwide, up from about 1.9% in 2018, and it is predicted that by 2028, this number could climb as high as 12.0%.  Rising energy consumption is not the only environmental concern associated with AI. Data centers also have a thirst for water,...

By: Dave Rejeski In May, OpenAI announced a $6.5 billion investment in a startup called io, a partnership with the former Apple design...

Jan Bieser is an assistant professor of digitalization and sustainability and head of the Data and Infrastructure Group. In his research,...