IT helps the environment and science

More than 50 sensors feed temperature, humidity and acoustic readings into the Museum’s AWS Data Ecosystem, which found woodland soils stayed 10°C cooler in June’s heatwave.

Growth in carbon emissions for 2024-25 matches total emissions over the previous four years, as Microsoft focuses on datacentre power

The popular wildfire tracking app is adding flood monitoring to its platform. It’s the first new disaster alert on the service, with many more to come.

Google, Microsoft, and other hyperscalers have come under scrutiny for their impact on water quality and availability.

A new NASA map shows how the sinking of Mexico City is uneven, with areas registering up to 2 centimeters per month.

Weather forecasting has gotten a big boost from machine learning. How that translates into what users see can vary.

By ensuring strategic technology capabilities are developed in-house, megacities can protect their critical infrastructure from cyber threats and global unpredictability, says Moscow government minister

Documents show that one of Google’s new data centers would be powered by a natural gas plant that emits millions of tons of emissions each year—an increasingly common trend in the industry.

“Ask Maps,” rolling out today to Google Maps on mobile, lets you ask Gemini questions about locations and even to plan trips on your behalf.

Fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded. Experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think.

More than a decade after launching in Europe, the Netherlands company is now selling its repairable phones in the US, starting with the Fairphone (Gen 6+).

New research finds that by making the fossil fuel industry more productive, AI could help increase carbon emissions by up to nearly 5 percent—vastly outpacing the impact of data centers.

Thousands of new fossil-fuel power sources are quietly firing up across the state to power the AI boom, thanks to a regulatory loophole, leaving residents feeling blindsided.

Elon Musk is set to make hundreds of billions even as communities in Mississippi and Tennessee are fighting to stop the gas turbines powering xAI's supercomputers.

With the launch of the first 16 satellites, Russia begins construction of a network for satellite internet that aims to cover the entire country by 2030. But getting there won’t be easy.

In a letter obtained by WIRED, the Energy Information Administration tells two senators that it plans to develop a mandatory assessment of data centers' energy use.

By ensuring strategic technology capabilities are developed in-house, megacities can protect their critical infrastructure from cyber threats and global unpredictability, says Moscow government minister

As war reshapes the Gulf, the satellite infrastructure the world relies on to see conflict clearly is being delayed, spoofed, and privately controlled—and nobody is sure who is responsible.