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Data center articles
Researchers are turning old Pixel phones into a data center – and they outperform some server hardware
Old smartphones are piling up as e-waste, but wait... 25 phones can match a single server CPU
Forward-looking: Researchers at the University of California San Diego are testing whether retired smartphones can still do useful work instead of ending up as electronic waste. Working with Google, the team is trying to turn retired Pixel smartphones into a low-cost data center. The goal is to keep working hardware in use instead of throwing it out after a few upgrade cycles.
A $200 ChatGPT subscription could cost OpenAI $14,000 if you actually used it to its full potential
OpenAI starts losing money on ChatGPT Plus once usage tops 11%, Anthropic's Claude is no different
Bottom line: The math behind AI subscriptions is starting to look uncomfortable. Flat monthly pricing helped fuel the rapid adoption of tools like ChatGPT and Claude, but new analysis suggests those fees may not come close to covering the actual cost of heavy use. As users push these systems harder and more demanding AI workflows take hold, the gap between revenue and compute costs is becoming difficult to ignore.
Samsung is building floating data centers on ships, and it's already got regulatory approval
Seasides can ease the pains of giant mainland AI date centers, if the concept works at all
OpenAI says China ran a covert campaign to turn Americans against data centers, but used facts that happen to be true
It's not like people needed much convincing
AMD claims next-gen Zen 6 server CPU will deliver 330% of Nvidia Vera's performance per rack
AMD counters Nvidia-controlled benchmark with internal performance calculations
Elon Musk reveals SpaceX's 230-foot-wide orbital AI data center satellite ahead of IPO
The first-generation AI1 craft is wider than a Boeing 747 and built around a 120 kW sustained compute payload
71% of Americans now oppose data centers near their homes, up from 42% just nine months ago
Water shortages, rising power bills, and broken promises from big tech
A truck-mounted nuclear reactor that runs for decades without refueling is being tested in China
The 10-megawatt mobile reactor can go to computing sites, remote regions, and industrial facilities
Intel launches Xeon 6+ Clearwater Forest with 288 E-cores on 18A node, teases Diamond Rapids for 2027
Intel just shipped its most ambitious server chip yet, Diamond Rapids promises PCIe 6.0 and twice the memory bandwidth next year
Elizabeth Warren wants to tax AI data centers as power bills climb
The senator wants AI's biggest winners to cover the energy costs ordinary Americans are absorbing
Inside the data center boom that's consuming Chile's last water
Data centers are diverting water from capital region in Chile's worst drought in 1,000 years
A hot potato: Anti-data center sentiment has intensified in the US since the AI boom began around 2022. However, the US is far from the only country in which data centers, built for AI and other technologies, negatively impact power and water supplies. In Chile, they are one of several factors driving a historic water crisis.
Nvidia Vera CPU impresses in early Nvidia-sanctioned benchmarks
Controlled tests show strong results against Intel Xeon and AMD Epyc
Nvidia hits record $81.6 billion revenue as AI boom shows no sign of slowing
"Customers do not buy GPUs; they build AI factories"
What just happened? If the AI boom really is a bubble that will one day pop, it hasn't happened yet. Nvidia, the driving force behind the hardware powering most of the AI industry, once again surpassed Wall Street expectations in its quarterly results, hitting a record $81.6 billion in revenue.
70% of Americans don't want AI data centers near their home, that's more opposition than nuclear plants get
Opposition to nearby AI data centers has surged from 47% to 70%, with resource use topping the list of worries
Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have one year to find new power as their utility pivots to data centers
California residents must compete with data center builders over Nevada power grid
Arm CEO predicts CPUs will scale to extreme core counts in AI-driven future
CPUs are going to have their computing revenge against GPUs, in a sense
Microsoft's $1 billion Kenya AI data center could require switching off "half the country"
Officials say the project's power demands could overwhelm Kenya's national grid
A data center used 29 million gallons of water without a bill, while residents complained about low water pressure
The county issued a $147,474 back-bill and waived all penalties
Michigan residents voted down a $16 billion Stargate AI data center, then construction began anyway
At least 19 Michigan municipalities have moved to pause new data center projects
AMD's next Epyc server chip debuts this year with 256 cores and 70% better performance
Zen 7 is already in the works
PCIe has doubled bandwidth every generation for two decades, PCIe 8.0 is on track to do it again at 1TB/s
PCIe is approaching the end of copper connections
A single Micron SSD can now store 245TB and use half the power of hard drives
The future of AI infrastructure can also be measured in rack space and power bills
This startup just raised $140 million to build wave-powered AI data centers at sea
It plans to move from prototypes to commercial offshore compute nodes powered by ocean energy
Next-gen MRDIMM standard nears completion targeting 12,800 MT/s DDR5 transfer rates for AI and data center workloads
MRDIMM is going to be even faster, although it's not for consumers