Trump has an AI data center problem ahead of the midterms — with no easy solutions

Grassroots opposition to data centers is growing in communities across the U.S. as people blame the facilities for high utility bills.

Voyager Technologies CEO says space data center cooling problem still needs to be solved

Voyager Technologies CEO Dylan Taylor said data centers in space will become a reality, but cooling issues still need to be ...

AI’s Data Center Boom Is Testing Power Grids And Local Communities

Data centers are an economic boom in some areas and are behind the artificial intelligence economy. However, the cost to ...
New Atlas

Google promises its upcoming Texas data center won't use any water for cooling

Among the many problems posed by the rapid proliferation of data centers around the world is the strain on local water supplies. These facilities need plenty of water for cooling the vast arrays of ...
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The $1 trillion AI data center problem won’t go away

Huge tech companies like Google and Amazon will spend $1 trillion to build AI data centers in the next two years. The problem ...
Opinion

AI Data Centers Are An Environmental Catastrophe—More Efficient Data Encryption Could Make A Big Difference

AES-256 remains the gold standard for high-stakes data encryption. While other, more lightweight and less-energy-intensive encryption methods do exist, they operate with multiple trade-offs in ...

Data centers’ sudden grid exits raise new reliability risks: WSJ

A wave of Virginia data centers abruptly disconnecting from the power grid last year exposed a growing threat to U.S. electricity reliability: massive customers vanishing all at once, The Wall Street ...
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Grid reliability set to crumble as power-hungry data centers explode in number

Across North America, the quiet hum of artificial intelligence is starting to sound like a roar in control rooms. Power-hungry data centers are multiplying faster than utilities can build new plants ...
E&E

Data centers have a political problem — and Big Tech wants to fix it

Tech companies and lobbyists are investing millions of dollars to tackle a new political problem for the industry: Data centers, the lifeblood of the growing artificial intelligence economy, are ...
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Machine Learning Solves Data Center Problems, But Also Creates New Ones

In this special guest feature, Geoff Tudor, VP and GM of Cloud Data Services at Panzura, believes AI poses both opportunities and risks in the automation of the datacenter. This article provides an ...

AI Skeptic Ed Zitron Says Math on Data Centers Doesn’t Add Up

Ed Zitron has done the math on the AI industry. He does not like what he found. Zitron, a tech analyst and writer behind the ...
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Trump’s data center embrace spurs energy and environment concerns

The Trump administration’s data center push is spurring concerns about energy prices and environmental impacts. The administration has embraced data centers, which house the computers and ...