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But the speed at which they're growing, the enormous amount of electricity they consume and concerns about their environmental impact are fuelling a public backlash around the world.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Macrophages, the white blood cells responsible for engulfing and destroying harmful microorganisms, attempt to consume these particles.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

But AI models consume large amounts of computing, which has sparked an industry-wide race to build out new data centers around the world.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Single-family starts, which consume more lumber, are down 4.0% year-to-date versus last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

No power could hold this army back, no water disperse them, no fire consume them.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

Spending another 15 minutes searching for a particular brand of yogurt may represent good service, but it also consumes time that a worker could otherwise spend completing another order.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

Research in the US suggests a typical data centre consumes around 300,000 gallons of water a day, or about as much as 1,000 US households.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

As former Goldman Sachs commodity strategist Jeff Currie pointed out a month ago, “Nobody on planet earth consumes crude oil. Refineries do. Everyone else consumes gasoline and diesel.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

In the United States, that hidden water use can be twice the amount a data center consumes on its own.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

In Homo sapiens, the brain accounts for about 2–3 per cent of total body weight, but it consumes 25 per cent of the body’s energy when the body is at rest.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

The analysis showed that Americans' overall coffee intake, including coffee consumed without additions, remained largely unchanged between 2003 and 2018.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

Ultra-processed foods account for more than half of the calories consumed by American adults.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

But while most of Jackdaw's gas is likely to be consumed in the UK, Rosebank's oil will be taken off by tanker and sold on international markets.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

They’re not consumed by a desire to appear thankful for the privilege to make money from playing sports.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

It had been rebuilt after a fire consumed the original hall.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

A convicted murderer serving a life sentence in Australia has lost his bid to overturn a ban on prisoners consuming Vegemite - the salty yeast-based spread that has become a national symbol.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Some participants reported consuming pre-mixed coffee beverages/powder, making it necessary to estimate the amounts of individual ingredients they contained.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

Indonesian schoolchildren prayed for rain on Thursday as another firefighter lost his life battling drought-fuelled blazes consuming forests and peatlands and blanketing parts of Southeast Asia in a sickening haze.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Residents say farmers are consuming too much water for irrigation, while farmers accuse towns and cities of unsustainable population growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

We did not know the name of whatever was consuming this tiny girl and the doctors could not explain the nature of the problem.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela