News with the tag "pollution"

Is Elon Musk’s AI venture, xAI, inadvertently casting a shadow over the health of Memphis residents? Recent revelations about xAI’s ‘Colossus’ supercomputer project are raising serious questions about environmental responsibility in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. While the promise of groundbreak...

The bill includes military bases, camps, hospitals, clinics, and arsenals, and restricts crypto mining within a 30-mile radius of them.

A group of residents in Granbury, Texas, sued Marathon Digital, claiming noise from its nearby Bitcoin mine is a “nuisance” that caused health issues for some locals.

International Monetary Fund (IMF) economists have warned of the environmental impact of crypto mining and AI data centers, which are projected to increase global electricity consumption to 3.5% by 2027, leading to higher carbon emissions. Proposing a targeted electricity tax, the authors estimate a ...

Environmental advocates are redoubling their efforts to persuade New York officials to decline an air permit renewal for a cryptocurrency mining facility in North Tonawanda. They assert that the operation imperils residents’ quality of life and undermines the state’s climate objectives, as per a rep...

Crypto mining is loud. But can the noise that it generates turn against it? Arkansas case suggests this is possible.