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.
In todayβs episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss how ICE has been collecting DNA samples of people who have no criminal convictions, including children, which end up in an FBI database indefinitely.