Nvidia just announced a warm-water cooling system that it says can dramatically reduce the amount of water a data center uses — eliminating “pretty much all water usage” inside the data center, ...

According to an announcement published by China's Ministry of Commerce on June 22, China has added 10 US entities to its export control list, prohibiting the export of dual-use items to these ...

If you hang out in any even vaguely AI-skeptical parts of the Internet, you’ve probably stumbled on plenty of memes and posts premised on data centers’ insatiable thirst for water to power evaporative ...

Amazon said its global data-center operations withdrew about 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025, as data center companies around the world face growing scrutiny over the environmental impact of ...

Dozens of cryptographically verified open source packages from Microsoft were compromised late last week to add advanced credential-stealing code that was triggered when developers opened them in AI ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft recently announced Azure Linux 4.0 and Azure Container Linux at Open Source Summit North America 2026 in Minneapolis. Azure Linux 4.0 is a Fedora-based, general-purpose server distribution ...

Microsoft released its first full Linux distro: Azure Linux 4.0. Azure Linux ix split into Azure Container Linux and the virtual machine edition. Microsoft effectively admits that it's a de facto ...

China treats data as a factor of production, not a privacy right or corporate asset, and is building economic infrastructure around it: regulated data exchanges, 30+ new standards expected in 2026, ...

An attacker pushed a malicious version of the popular elementary-data package Python Package Index (PyPI) to steal sensitive developer data and cryptocurrency wallets. The dangerous release is 0.23.3, ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...