Justin Hendrix

Elon Musk departs after a welcome ceremony with President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People, Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Apple CEO Tim Cook, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent attend the welcome ceremony for U.S. President Donald Trump by Chinese President Xi Jinping, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Thursday, May 14, 2026. (Maxim Shemetov/Pool Photo via AP)

Contemplating 'Muskism' and the Age of Trillionaires

Matt Williams

Cooling pipes hug data servers, extracting water from a shared reservoir while people collect water from the same source, set against a background of eroded soil textures.

The Environmental Impact of Data Centers in Vulnerable Ecosystems by Gloria Mendoza / 

Big Tech Will Not Save Us From the Climate Crisis

Hannah Lipstein

Tamara Kneese

Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks at a news conference during the Critical Minerals Ministerial meeting at the State Department, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

US Critical Mineral Aggression Abroad Connected to Data Center Fights at Home

Aahil Sheikh

Bird's eye view photo of a small hut and a concrete path through a lush green forest. However, the image is slightly distorted by digital artifacts.

Distorted Forest Path by Lone Thomasky & Bits&Bäume / 

Envisioning an AI Climate Strategy for India

Louis Boyd-Madsen

View of chimneys from Poolbeg Power Station and Poolbeg Incinerator, across Grand Canal Dock, Dublin. Photography by Louis Boyd-Madsen.

What Ireland’s Data Center Crisis Means for the EU’s AI Sovereignty Plans

Alice Hunsberger

Pinal Shah

Theodora Skeadas

An installation of an iceberg with a burning Facebook logo near the United States Capitol, in protest of climate change misinformation on the social media platform, Nov. 4, 2021. (Eric Kayne/AP Images for SumofUS)

An installation of an iceberg with a burning Facebook logo near the United States Capitol, in protest of climate change misinformation on the social media platform, Nov. 4, 2021. (

Why Platforms Don’t Catch Climate Misinformation — and How to Change That

Sushmita

Mumbai’s Data Center Dreams Run on Coal and Inequality

Laís Martins

Indigenous groups protest the GOP30 summit in Belém, Brazil. (Xuthoria)

Indigenous groups protest the GOP30 summit in Belém, Brazil. (

At COP30 in Brazil, Tech’s Role in the Climate Crisis was a Footnote

Sarah-Indra Jungblut

Blue line illustration of a factory feeding power and data into a running, AI-like figure on a conveyor belt, symbolising industrial automation, data processing and the human workforce observing from the sidelines.

Credits: Juliette Baily, Kevin Lucbert for AlgorithmWatch CC BY 4.0

Germany’s Data Center Boom is Pushing the Power Grid to Its Limits

Henry Throp

A radish farm in Southwest Asia. (Mrb Rafi)

Artificial Intelligence, Water Consumption and the Trillion-Radish Conundrum 

William Burns

This illustration of urban life shows groups of people, buildings, bridges, power plants, mining areas, data centers and wind power stations. (Lone Thomasky & Bits&Bäume / Better Images of AI / CC by 4.0)

This illustration of urban life shows groups of people, buildings, bridges, power plants, mining areas, data centers and wind power stations. (

Europe Promotes Energy Use in Data Centers While Millions Go Cold

Vincent Obia

Students at computers with screens that include a representation of a retinal scanner with pixelation and binary data overlays and a brightly coloured datawave heatmap at the top.

Kathryn Conrad / Better Images of AI / Datafication / CC-BY 4.0

Africa’s AI Policy Ambitions Ignore Energy, Climate and Labor Concerns

Tim Davies

Anna Colom

The image shows the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), with rows of seated delegates facing a stage. The stage features the iconic UN emblem, and a speaker is addressing the assembly from a podium. Two large screens display the speaker, while the golden backdrop, emblem, and setting suggest a formal international event. The hall is filled with delegates.

The Global Digital Compact was adopted by the UN General Assembly in New York City on September 23rd, 2024. 

The UN’s Global Dialogue on AI Must Give Citizens a Real Seat at the Table

Aerial view of a data center owned by Google in Santiago on October 9, 2024. (Photo by RODRIGO ARANGUA/AFP via Getty Images)

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