This October, Google and the City of The Dalles celebrated the completion of a new water infrastructure project that will ...

Every Google search, shared document, map destination, calendar alert, Gmail message and streamed YouTube video is powered by sprawling data centers across the globe, including one in Berkeley County.

Google’s water consumption is rising rapidly as its push into the energy-intensive AI world continues. And the majority of this water isn’t even being pulled out of streams — it’s clean enough to be ...

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BOTETOURT COUNTY, Va. – Google’s data center at the Botetourt Center at Greenfield could use up to 8 million gallons of water a day, making it the county’s largest user by far. The Western Virginia ...

A Payne County commissioner is raising new concerns over the massive amount of water a planned Google data center complex in ...

How badly does AI harm the environment? We now have some answers to that question, as both Google and Mistral have published their own self-assessments of the environmental impact of an AI query. In ...

BOTETOURT COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - Wednesday night, the Western Virginia Water Authority entered into two agreements that will set the future of water use for the Google data center coming to Botetourt ...

Google shared a study of Gemini’s environmental impact, but it omits some key data. Google shared a study of Gemini’s environmental impact, but it omits some key data. is a senior science reporter ...