There's $67 billion in critical minerals in old electronics and mine waste. By some estimates, America has nearly all the rare earth elements it needs through e-waste recycling and mine tailings, ...

After searching for the right site across Alabama for nearly a year, a Houston-based real estate developer settled on a rural area in Lowndes County for its future $1.5 billion artificial intelligence ...

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 ...

An unusual ship, the Hidden Gem, set sail in late 2022 to test a daring idea: how to mine valuable minerals on the ocean floor. An unusual ship, the Hidden Gem, set sail in late 2022 to test a daring ...

HOLYOKE — Developers are proposing a $200 million, 20-megawatt data center for the vacant Hampden Papers complex at 100 Water St., an abandoned cannabis growing facility in the industrial Flats ...

One of the nation’s largest uranium companies, Uranium Energy Corporation, reports earnings on Wednesday. This comes as the uranium industry is seeing a boost in production. The U.S. is looking to ...

A version of this story was originally published by the Pulitzer Center, which supported Elizabeth Claire Alberts as an Ocean Reporting Network fellow. We didn’t set out to investigate China’s ...

Data centers constantly clamor for more water and power to fuel the artificial intelligence boom, yet discard staggering amounts of energy already received. In fact, every day global data centers ...

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Our thermal drones exposed pollution from a massive AI data center powering the AI boom. We investigated one of the world’s largest AI data centers, using thermal drone footage to reveal the hidden ...