Microsoft is scaling back its data centre expansion plans globally, with several projects delayed or halted across multiple countries including the US, UK, Indonesia, and Australia, reported ...

The technology requires massive amounts of computing power, which means consuming massive amounts of electricity. Giant new AI-focused data centers powered by carbon-intensive electricity plants are ...

Wisconsin s data center boom, driven by AI growth and state support, raises questions on energy use while pushing ...

Not that this is going particularly well right now, as Microsoft's carbon emissions are 29% greater than they were in 2020 when it set the carbon goal, due to building more data centres for AI.

Microsoft has put a data centre in the sea in an experimental effort to see if it can provide internet services faster to coastal cities using renewable energy. It's put the data centre, ...

Great Lakes states should take steps to protect water resources from increasing demand from data centers and other industries ...

Finnish utility Fortum said on Thursday it will use waste heat from two new Microsoft data centres to warm homes and businesses in and around the capital Helsinki, while also cutting carbon ...

Image: Microsoft In 2014, Microsoft was convinced a sealed container on the ocean floor could provide ways to improve the overall reliability of data centres so, in 2015, it tested its first ...