The Data Centers Have Arrived at the Edge of the Arctic Circle

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The Data Centers Have Arrived at the Edge of the Arctic Circle

On the bank of the river that runs through the Swedish town of Borlänge, construction is underway on a sprawling new data center....

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Could AI Data Centers Be Moved to Outer Space?

Here ε is the emissivity of the object—how effective it is as a radiator (0 < ε < 1), σ is the Stefan-Boltzmann...

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A Wave of Unexplained Bot Traffic Is Sweeping the Web

Many people suspect that these bots are part of an AI company’s effort to collect training data from web pages. In 2025, AI...

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New York Is the Latest State to Consider a Data Center Pause

Lawmakers in at least five other states—Georgia, Maryland, Oklahoma, Vermont, and Virginia—have also introduced bills this year that would impose various forms of...

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Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom

Data centers have caused the demand for gas-fired power in the US to explode over the past two years, according to new research...

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People Are Protesting Data Centers—but Embracing the Factories That Supply Them

Last month, Pamela Griffin and two other residents of Taylor, Texas, took to the lectern at a city council meeting to object to...

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Jensen Huang Says Nvidia’s New Vera Rubin Chips Are in ‘Full Production’

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says that the company’s next-generation AI superchip platform, Vera Rubin, is on schedule to begin arriving to customers later...

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The Great Big Power Play

Take yourself back to 2017. Get Out and The Shape of Water were playing in theaters, Zohran Mamdani was still known as rapper...

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Billion-Dollar Data Centers Are Taking Over the World

When Sam Altman said one year ago that OpenAI’s Roman Empire is the actual Roman Empire, he wasn’t kidding. In the same way...

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WIRED Roundup: The 5 Tech and Politics Trends That Shaped 2025

Zoë Schiffer: Yeah, that was another executive order that came out. I think it was literally titled something around eliminating data silos. Another...

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You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong

Last month, journalist Karen Hao posted a Twitter thread in which she acknowledged that there was a substantial error in her blockbuster book...

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America’s Biggest Bitcoin Miners Are Pivoting to AI

One afternoon in June 2024, I stood up against the fence of a sprawling industrial facility a few miles outside of Corsicana, Texas....

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