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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Big Tech Says Generative AI Will Save the Planet. It Doesn’t Offer Much Proof

But a lot of these claims, it turns out, have very little—if any—actual proof behind them.Joshi is the author of a new report,...

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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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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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The Trump Administration’s Data Center Push Could Open the Door for New Forever Chemicals

In response to questions on its two-phase cooling products from WIRED, including whether or not the company planned to submit chemicals for fast-tracked...

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If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here’s Where They Should Go

Tech companies have invested so much money in building data centers in recent months, it’s actively driving the US economy—and the AI race...

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Louisiana Hands Meta a Tax Break and Power for Its Biggest Data Center

The agreement sets out hiring timelines that the company must also hit to receive these tax incentives: Meta can receive the highest property...

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Big Tech Dreams of Putting Data Centers in Space

For one thing, the systems he imagines process data relatively slowly compared to those on terra firma. They’d be constantly bombarded by radiation,...

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Why solar power is the only viable power source in the long run

Solar power has...

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