Browsing: Data Centers
The buildings behind the cloud and the AI boom, covering power demand, water use, local opposition and the enormous sums being spent on them.
Amazon’s planned Pecos County data center comes with its own 35-turbine gas plant, permitted to release 33 million tons of CO2 a year. That is roughly double the emissions of the dirtiest power plant currently running in the United States.
Data centers are set to consume 70 percent of the world’s memory chips in 2026. Here’s why the AI data center building boom, not ordinary demand, is behind the global chip shortage, and when relief might actually arrive.
Google and Starcloud are testing AI chips in orbit, betting that solar-powered satellites can solve the AI industry’s power and land problems. Here’s what the technology can and can’t do yet.
A new ITIF report argues that states, not federal mandates, can solve the data center water crisis through standardized reporting and watershed-based reviews. Here’s what it recommends and why Texas already shows the risk of getting it wrong.
AI’s explosive growth is straining power grids and construction timelines. Find out how modular data centers are offering a faster, greener, and smarter solution to one of tech’s most urgent problems.
The Sanders AI Data Center Moratorium Act would pause new AI data centers until Congress passes AI safeguards. Here is what it says and where it stands.
Why a Mason County, Kentucky family refused $26 million for their farm, what happened with the data center rezoning, and advice for landowners.
Solidigm’s 122.88TB D5 P5336 and its 245TB plans explained: QLC flash, AI storage needs, HDD vs SSD economics and the race to bigger drives.