Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it.

Two weeks ago, OpenAI said it would relaunch the robotics program it shuttered in 2021 — the latest signal that the biggest ...
Bloomberg L.P.

The Race to Rethink Data Centers for AI’s Power Surge

Artificial intelligence data centers are on the verge of reaching their limits. To meet ballooning demand, chipmakers like Nvidia Corp. are churning out ever more powerful chips, requiring a new ...
Los Angeles Times

Inside the race to rebuild AI data centers before the grid hits its limit

Artificial intelligence data centers are on the verge of reaching their limits. To meet ballooning demand, chipmakers like Nvidia Corp. are churning out ever more powerful chips, requiring a new ...
The Atlantic

How Much of Data-Center Activism Is Really AI Slop?

A weirder, more disturbing type of AI-generated anti-AI content started proliferating on Facebook in March. The memes, which show broadly nostalgic images of the American countryside, are shared on ...
Inc

This Map Tracks 4,000 AI Data Centers Being Built—and Reveals Where the Biggest Boom Is

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has launched a crowdsourced map that tracks more than 4,000 major AI data centers across the United States. The Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting website aims ...
CNBC

Amazon engineers in Seattle slam employer for building AI data centers while laying off 30,000 staffers

Amazon engineers railed at their employer for conducting mass layoffs while committing to spend $200 billion this year on AI infrastructure, including data centers. The engineers spoke at a Seattle ...
The Conversation

How much water and power will AI data centres use in Australia? Ironically, we don’t have the data to know

Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...
Reuters

AI to double data centre power and water consumption by 2030, UN researchers say

SINGAPORE, June 3 (Reuters) - Data centres are expected to consume twice as much power and water by 2030 as they expand to meet the surge in demand from artificial intelligence, U.N. researchers said ...
Frontiers

Multimodal Annotation for Intangible Cultural Heritage: Embodied Knowledge and Technology

The field of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) preservation increasingly depends on multimodal data, ranging from motion ...
Time

AI Could Use as Much Water as 1.3 Billion People by 2030, U.N. Report Warns

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Reuters

Meta deepens partnership with Ambani's Reliance with AI data centre

Meta is already a major investor in Reliance's IPO-bound Jio Platforms and last year formed a joint venture to develop AI tools for enterprises using its Llama models. Under the latest deal, Reliance ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Elon Musk Shows Detailed Design of AI Data Center Satellite

Elon Musk unveiled a more detailed look at an initial version of an AI data center satellite SpaceX plans to build, providing fresh insight into the ambitious project driving the company’s highly ...