This giant microwave may change the future of war
Imagine: China deploys hundreds of thousands of autonomous drones in the air, on the sea, and under the water—all armed
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Features and Investigations
Everything you need to know about estimating AI’s energy and emissions burden
When we set out to write a story on the best available estimates for AI’s energy and emissions burden, we
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We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. Source link
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The data center boom in the desert
In the high desert east of Reno, Nevada, construction crews are flattening the golden foothills of the Virginia Range, laying
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AI could keep us dependent on natural gas for decades to come
The thousands of sprawling acres in rural northeast Louisiana had gone unwanted for nearly two decades. Louisiana authorities bought the
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Inside the story that enraged OpenAI
In 2019, Karen Hao, a senior reporter with MIT Technology Review, pitched me on writing a story about a then
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Inside the controversial tree farms powering Apple’s carbon neutral goal
We were losing the light, and still about 20 kilometers from the main road, when the car shuddered and died
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AI is pushing the limits of the physical world
Architecture often assumes a binary between built projects and theoretical ones. What physics allows in actual buildings, after all, is
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How creativity became the reigning value of our time
Americans don’t agree on much these days. Yet even at a time when consensus reality seems to be on the
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