What data center backlash? My night at a raucous 'pro-data center' party.
What started as a social media invite to a small pro-data center party became a full-fledged DC bash with themed cocktails and sponsors.
Business Insider - AI5 min read
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
New York Times AI1 min read
AI is driving a data-center power boom. Here are some of the biggest US projects being built.
Among the largest coming data centers is a city-sized Texas campus pursuing up to 17 gigawatts of power capacity. See other giant ones planned.
Business Insider - AI10 min read
Google data center lead says ‘hundreds of thousands’ of skilled trade jobs are open across the U.S.—and they’re ‘just waiting to be filled’
Despite growing backlash over data centers, trillions in AI investment are fueling a surge in high-paying skilled trades jobs across the U.S.
Fortune AI4 min read
Exclusive: AI giants, unions join forces for data center fight
AI companies, private equity firms and unions are looking beyond 2026 in the data center debate, banding together to form a new multimillion-dollar coalition to make the case for responsible growth in seven key states.Why it matters: The new group, the American Infrastructure Alliance, wants to…
Axios AI+3 min read
The $170 billion lesson data center developers keep learning the hard way
Maura Healey, the governor of Massachusetts, recently laid down a new rule on the contentious question of whether to build data centers in her state: “Unless a community says yes to a data center, we are saying no.” Pennsylvania’s governor, Josh Shapiro, took it a step further, requiring developers…
Fast Company — Technology7 min read
What people living next to data centers think about managing them
The people of northern Virginia have been living with data centers for many years. The area is home to the world’s largest concentration of data centers.
Fast Company — Technology5 min read
Oracle Buys Time on Stargate With a Force Majeure Notice
Oracle sent a force majeure notice this week to the developer building Project Jupiter, the 2.45-gigawatt Stargate data center campus in southern New Mexico that anchors roughly $165 billion of planned spending.
Awesome Agents Newsletter Blog5 min read
Can Tech Companies Like Google Really Put Data Centers in Space?
Google is preparing to launch a satellite that can run its A.I. technologies from the heavens. But this is just a first step.
New York Times AI1 min read
Google Is Sending an A.I. Data Center to Outer Space
Next Thursday, Google is sending an experimental satellite into orbit that will have enough computing power to answer simple A.I. queries from space.
New York Times AI1 min read
Data Center Is Fined $1.1 Million for Operating 62 Power Generators
New Jersey officials said that the natural gas-powered generators, each the size of a tractor-trailer, were operating without permits.
New York Times AI1 min read
The Future Is Fanless: 100% Heat Capture for Liquid Cooled AI Servers
This article is brought to you by CoolIT, an Ecolab Company.Beyond 250 kW a server rack can no longer be cooled by a hybrid approach of liquid and air. At this density a 70/30 liquid-air split leaves 75 kW of air load.
IEEE Spectrum4 min read
South Africa joins the global resistance against American data centers
“A massive data center is trying to jump the queue and take our land, water, and energy.”
Rest of World5 min read
Cash In on the AI Boom by Renting Out Your Spare Compute
If you own an at-home server, a gaming computer, or just a laptop that doesn’t get much love, listen up. You can now put that spare computing power to use and earn some passive income in the process.
IEEE Spectrum AI7 min read
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