The past year has seen artificial intelligence (AI) become a dinner-table topic of conversation around the world, thanks to bots such as ChatGPT, which dazzles users with its ability to compose lifelike text and even computer code. But what happens when AI makes wrong decisions? It’s a serious issue. Bias – and gender bias in [...]

During last summer’s heatwave, when temperatures soared above 40 degrees, numerous data centres in Britain had to shut down. And in hot weather, data centres need even more power to keep their equipment cool. It highlighted a very real problem that too few people are aware of: the colossal power demands of the data centres [...]