The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is running headfirst into a fundamental physical bottleneck: matter itself. As the computational demands of AI push data centers and semiconductors into unprecedented territory,…
The explosive growth of artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure is running into a formidable wall of local, state, and regional opposition. Across the United States, communities are increasingly pushing back…
When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, set out to evaluate the long-term economic impact of artificial intelligence, she immediately encountered a labyrinth of…
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is running headfirst into a fundamental physical constraint: the limits of modern materials science. As cutting-edge algorithms demand unprecedented computational power, the physical infrastructure…
In early June, a fire broke out in an unfinished building at the Lake Mariner data center in Somerset, New York. For the local volunteers of the Barker Fire Department,…