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Potential health impacts tied to California data center pollution tripled between 2019 and 2023, according to an analysis from University of California, Riverside researchers.

A look at what’s happening in California shows that even in an environmentally progressive state, unhealthy emissions and resource depletion is a problem needing a solution, an academic report says.

A new report from the nonprofit NEXT 10 and University of California Riverside found that, in 2023, data centers in California pulled 10.82 terawatt-hours of electricity — 1 terawatt equals 1 trillion watts — from the state’s grid, or about enough

Thanks in large part to the training and running of artificial-intelligence models, the amount of power California data centers are using is surging — as are related environmental and health effects, according to a new report.

esearchers from the University of California, Riverside, found that health impacts from pollution associated with California’s computer processing data centers tripled from 2019 to 2023 — and could rise by another 72% by 2028 unless mitigation pol

In the high-stakes race to power artificial intelligence’s explosive growth, data centers are devouring energy and spewing pollution at unprecedented rates.

In a recent study conducted by researchers at UC Riverside, the authors found that in just the past few years, data centers in California have seen sharp increases in resource use, with both energy consumption and climate warming emissions nearly

The impact of data centers: Electricity use and carbon emissions by power-hungry California data centers nearly doubled between 2019 and 2023, a new report says.

Researchers say California’s growing data centers consume massive amounts of electricity and water, contributing to pollution and health issues like respiratory and cardiac problems.

California is a major hub for data centers — the facilities that store and transmit much of the internet.