Never Add Salt To Cold Pasta Water — Here's What You Should Do Instead

Salting pasta water isn't as easy as it sounds. Along with knowing which salt and how much of it to use, determining when to ...
Amazon S3 on MSN

Sodium Metal Meets Water in This Fiery Science Experiment

The science pros at The King of Random drop sodium metal in water for a fiery experiment. White House Starts Mass Layoffs of ...

Splitting water: How order and disorder direct chemical reactivity

In nature, the behavior of systems—whether large or small—is always governed by a few fundamental principles. For instance, ...

A safer solvent for organic chemistry labs

The solvent dichloromethane, or DCM, is commonly used to strip paint and cut grease. It's also what generations of chemistry ...
Geeky Gadgets

Why Sodium-Ion Batteries Are the Future of Energy Storage

What if the future of energy storage didn’t depend on rare, expensive, and environmentally taxing materials? Imagine a world where batteries are built from elements as common as table salt, offering a ...
The Texas Tribune

Data centers are thirsty for Texas’ water, but state planners don’t know how much they will need

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. A wave of massive data centers is expanding across Texas, prompting ...
Los Angeles Times

Amid the AI boom, California looks to address water use by massive data centers

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The AI-driven boom in data centers is putting growing demands on water in California and the Southwest. New ...
Reuters

Sustainable Switch: AI's energy and water use problem

This is an excerpt of the Sustainable Switch newsletter, where we make sense of companies and governments grappling with climate change, diversity, and human rights on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
The Shreveport Times

A Meta data center is coming to Louisiana. Why it will use up state's water, electricity

In December 2024, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, announced plans to construct a four million square foot data center campus in Northeast Louisiana. The $10 billion AI ...
ABC7 San Francisco

Benicia community urged to reduce water use 'immediately' after drinking water line damage

BENICIA, Calif. -- The city of Benicia's drinking water line has experienced significant damage and and all residents are required to reduce their water use "immediately," the city said Wednesday ...
NBC Bay Area

Benicia orders residents to reduce water use following ‘significant' damage to water line

The city of Benicia's drinking water line has experienced significant damage and all residents are required to reduce their water use "immediately," the city said Wednesday evening. In response to the ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Microsoft to use 2.8 million gallons of Lake Michigan water in 2026 for Mount Pleasant project

Future expansion of the data center could increase water usage to over 8.4 million gallons per year. The city of Racine released documents regarding water usage for a Microsoft data center after being ...