China has reportedly launched the world’s first commercial underwater data center in Hainan on Tuesday. This marks a major step in the country’s push to expand its ‘blue economy.’ The project, located ...

How AI’s power, water and carbon footprints have a disproportionate effect on local communities, and what can be done about ...

While the tech giants of the world hunger for energy to power their massive data centers, one Chinese company is pushing a solution that would make Jacques Cousteau’s eyes light up: an underwater data ...

The growing popularity of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud services and digital applications is driving unprecedented demand for computing power, placing huge pressure on traditional land-based ...

Google announced Project Suncatcher earlier this month. CEO Sundar Pichai now says it could begin building data centers in ...

Data centers like those used to train and run AI models have this irksome tendency to drain the local water supply for the purpose of cooling through heat exchange, sometimes worsening water scarcity ...

Power-hungry data centres run hot, so one Chinese company is planning to submerge a pod of servers in the sea off Shanghai with hopes of solving computing's energy woes. On a wharf near the city, ...

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New UWOC technology unveiled ahead of CES 2026 promises real-time ocean data transmission for marine research, industry, and next-gen marine exploration Kyocera Corporation (President: Hideo Tanimoto; ...