Artificial intelligence is consuming increasing amounts of energy. Major technology companies are investing billions in new data centers to train and run AI models. Researchers now believe they have found a way to drastically reduce that energy consumption. A team…

The era of blindly burning through AI tokens is over. Major tech companies are realizing that unlimited use of artificial intelligence leads to sky-high costs and enormous ecological damage. The controversial trend of “tokenmaxing” is rapidly giving way to a…

As AI continues to reshape industries and economies, concerns are growing about the environmental cost of the technology. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has urged AI companies to become far more transparent about the resources required to power their systems,…

As AI models scale into data centers, industrial systems, chatbots, and autonomous agents, computational demand is exploding. Yet the limiting factor is no longer just compute power or algorithms — it is how efficiently data can be moved and processed…

A new report from the United Nations University (UNU) paints an alarming picture of AI’s footprint. The hunger for computing power not only threatens our climate but also places enormous pressure on scarce natural resources such as water and land.…

In recent months, Nvidia has invested billions of dollars in companies working on photonics. With this technology, information is transmitted via light signals rather than electricity. This should make AI data centers faster and more energy-efficient in the future. Energy consumption is…

Vattenfall and data center developer Nscale have signed a long-term agreement to supply renewable electricity for the first phase of Nscale’s data center project in Kvandal, northern Norway. Nscale is positioning itself as a provider of infrastructure for advanced AI…

UK-based startup Greenpixie has raised £4.7 million in a pre-Series A funding round. The company helps large enterprises reduce wasted energy, carbon emissions, and unnecessary costs from cloud computing and AI systems. Large companies such as Mastercard already use Greenpixie’s…

The Netherlands is making a major move in energy-efficient computing with the launch of the 10X-Factor(y) program, supported by a €9 million NWO grant and a total budget of €30 million from companies and private funders. The initiative aims to…

As we use more and more AI, the demand for energy is rising fast, too. Training and running AI models requires enormous computing power — and that means huge amounts of electricity for the datacenters behind them. Reporter Mauro Mereu…

The Netherlands is taking a major step toward energy-efficient computing with a €9 million grant from the NWO Knowledge and Innovation Covenant (KIC) Long-Term Programme, awarded to the ”10X-Factor(y): Towards a Dutch ecosystem for neuromorphic technologies“ project. The project is managed…

Artificial intelligence is undergoing a massive expansion that threatens to overwhelm global energy grids. As large language models grow in size, their thirst for electricity creates a critical tension between technological progress and climate goals. Europe has emerged as a…