A massive new gas plant in Texas will be built with much less efficient technology than regular gas plants. Itβs far from the only data center power project to rely on dirty turbines.
New research finds that by making the fossil fuel industry more productive, AI could help increase carbon emissions by up to nearly 5 percentβvastly outpacing the impact of data centers.
With rising temperatures and drier conditions, fires are more likely to explode. And with more people living next to forests, the results can be catastrophic.
Its WeatherNext model, which will be open-sourced, can accurately predict a stormβs track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data. Researchers donβt yet fully understand how it does this.