Using drones makes detecting land mines safer. Using AI to fuse data from multiple types of sensors on the drones makes it more efficient.

Chile's state-owned Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, and Microsoft signed a ​memorandum of understanding to ...

CEDARVILLE, Mich. – A rural township in Michigan’s eastern Upper Peninsula is moving to block data centers and cryptocurrency mining operations through zoning laws, citing concerns over noise, power ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between BPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The town of Canton could be the latest North Carolina municipality to ban ...

Mining and civil geoprofessionals rate data management as highly/critically important but face big challenges unlocking value from complex datasets Seequent, the Bentley Subsurface company, says ...

AI data center expansion is facing increasing local opposition over power, infrastructure and costs, echoing the resistance that once slowed Bitcoin mining. For years, Bitcoin miners expanding across ...

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Bitcoin’s most recent halving took place in 2024, cutting the reward miners receive for each new block (David Pereiras/The Noun Project) While today’s data center conversation revolves around AI, ...

Rising gold and silver prices unleashed Hycroft Mining's stock price last year. The company does not actually mine any silver or gold today. After rising almost 1,000%, the pre-revenue stock looks ...

As Bitcoin miners increasingly pivot toward artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC), many assume their biggest competition will come from cloud giants such as Amazon, Google or ...

In June, WSJ’s Joanna Stern headed inside a data center to show just how much energy it takes to make an AI image and video. Photo: David Hall It’s harder than ever to mine bitcoin. And less ...