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The Daily Californianian: ‘The future of AI’ is away from data centers, UC Berkeley researchers argue
UC Berkeley's student-run newspaper interviews faculty co-director Fernando Pérez about our recent commentary in Nature.
August 14, 2026
Berkeley News: Why we don’t need more data centers to build better AI
UC Berkeley News spotlights our commentary today in Nature on the environmental and scientific benefits of open source AI models.
August 11, 2026
AI Can Move Beyond Data Centers
In a new commentary in Nature Schmidt DSE faculty & researchers posit that open source AI models, which tend to be far more energy efficient than their commercial counterparts and run for free, offer an outside-the-box approach to meeting demands for use.
August 11, 2026
New from DSE: data science tools to scale state and global conservation efforts
Our newest AI-powered tools are tailored for policymakers and researchers looking to analyze complex conservation data and collect bioacoustic data at scale.
July 9, 2026