Deep beneath South Africa’s gold fields, an unexpected gas has been building for billions of years. Helium, essential for MRI scanners and advanced research, sits trapped in the ancient rocks of the ...

The deal for Intersect, a data center and energy developer, is set to help Google build out its infrastructure for artificial intelligence. By Eli Tan Reporting from Seattle Google has agreed to buy ...

The Transportation Security Administration is flagging passengers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders. The Transportation Security ...

Abstract: This study examines the development of hologram maps that provide a precise, intuitive depiction of underwater topography in a genuine three-dimensional format. It integrates sophisticated ...

As AI continues to dominate the technology landscape, the data underlying the information these artificial intelligence solutions train on is under more scrutiny than ever. According to Research ...

Africa’s official maps are stuck in the past, often either outdated, incomplete—or both. But governments don’t have the budgets to fix them, making it difficult to complete projects as complex as ...

When the Coalition of Communities of Color (CCC) began a multi-year collaboration with the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), they worked together to modernize a critical public health information source: ...

A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built. An extensive new analysis looks ...

In what the agency hopes will spur a major leap in American geoscience, the U.S. Geological Survey has released a new mapping tool that allows anyone to peer into the earth beneath their feet. Dubbed ...

When the expert hired by the Legislature drew the new congressional districts adopted by lawmakers, he did so on a platform that showed him partisan data as he went. Attorneys for the plaintiffs ...

Backup generators are gaining a new lease on life in data centers. For decades, they have been a rarely used part of the infrastructure, existing for those moments when other power sources fail. But ...

“AI” needs a lot of computing resources, which is why new data centers are cropping up anywhere there’s cheap land. But powering all those hungry servers takes a lot of energy, and overburdened power ...