A developer offered every household in a Pennsylvania town $10,000 for a data center, and many still said no
The proposed 1,300-acre site could eventually house 15 data center buildings
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Russia targets Ukraine's data centers as attacks disrupt internet access for 100,000 households
Companies are shifting data overseas as Moscow widens its attacks on Ukraine's digital infrastructure
Google is launching AI chips into space to see if they survive up there
Google's space AI chip test isn't about power, it's about whether the hardware survives at all
AI data center boom hits growing resistance as $68 billion in US projects are blocked or delayed
More than 800 groups are now opposing data center projects across 49 US states
GlobalFoundries and Marvell are scaling up silicon photonics efforts as data centers outgrow copper wiring
AI's data problem isn't compute anymore, it's how fast bits can move between chips
This startup believes smaller, modular data centers can solve AI's infrastructure bottleneck
The company raised $3.9 billion to deploy inference capacity where power is available
US-Iran war permanently damaged Amazon's AWS infrastructure in the Middle East
Cloud access and data services cannot be restored anymore in Bahrain and UAE
Micron offered its Taiwan workers up to 68 months' pay. They turned it down within hours
The largest reward package in company history still doesn't answer the question its unions are actually asking
Starlink is offering half-price internet near xAI data centers, but critics want the pollution fixed
The discount has drawn about 2,000 subscribers out of more than 250,000 households in Memphis
Magnetic tape storage is booming again, thanks to AI's unquenchable hunger for data
New LTO Ultrium LTO-10 tapes can store up to 100TB of compressed data per cartridge
Magnetic Storage Bubble: The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) format was designed back in the 90s as an open-standard alternative to proprietary tape formats. Now, the magnetic storage technology is growing in both relevance and shipment volumes because AI companies can't seem to stop gobbling up digital data for LLM training and inference workloads.
Data center backlash isn't about AI, it's about who pays the bills (and the noise)
Water disputes in Georgia and Wyoming have also fueled local opposition
X says China used hundreds of bot accounts to amplify fears about AI data centers that many Americans already share
Does China really need to bother?
Trump says data center protesters are "making a mistake," but his allies disagree
61% of Americans now oppose new data centers in their area, up from 49% in March
AI data center boom pushes Caterpillar, Ford, and other US firms into new businesses
Powering AI is becoming big business
Intel says Nova Lake, its next major CPU architecture, is coming to desktop PCs before servers
Nova Lake will bring a new core design to consumers before it reaches the data center
Nvidia may have just built its own hyperscaler without owning a single data center
The neoclouds are burning cash by the billion. Nvidia just lined up the money to keep them building
Why it matters: Nvidia has quietly assembled every piece of a cloud giant, and it doesn't even need to own the buildings. That is the theory making the rounds, and once you see it laid out, the last two years stop looking like a chip company having a very good run and start looking like a plan. The financing arrangement Nvidia signed this month with BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and four other Wall Street heavyweights, aimed at funneling more than $500 billion of outside capital into AI data centers, would be the last piece clicking into place. Most outlets filed it under the now usual "more AI money" headline, but there is a more interesting read.
Enterprise SSDs now consume 48% of global NAND flash supply
AI is turning the NAND market upside down, with training making way for inference
Nine PBS lost access to 50TB of archives after its cloud storage provider vanished
A failed cloud vendor left 70 years of broadcasting history stranded inside a Denver data center
Cargo thieves are staging car crashes to steal AI data center hardware
Authorities have recovered millions in stolen equipment, including $550,000 in Meta server switches
TL;DR: Cargo thieves are targeting equipment used in AI data centers, from server switches to cooling systems and networking hardware. In two recent California cases, criminals appear to have used car crashes to separate trucks from their security escorts before the shipments vanished. The incidents highlight how organized groups are using carrier-identity fraud, GPS manipulation and, increasingly, aggressive roadside tactics to steal high-value tech moving through the freight network.
Amazon's new Texas data center could become the single largest polluter in the US
The facility could release up to 33 million tons of CO2 a year, rivaling Switzerland and Ireland
A hot potato: A proposed Amazon data center in Texas has sparked concerns that its massive on-site power plant could become the single-largest source of pollution in the US, threatening to affect local communities, farmland, and small businesses. The facility is planned for Pecos County as part of Amazon's growing push into AI and cloud services.
This Kentucky family rejected a $26 million data center offer to protect their farmland
Developers are chasing large sites with grid access, but more rural communities are pushing back
AMD's data center business just more than doubled, and gaming is paying the price
AMD made $6.7 billion from data centers last quarter – and expects to double it again
Texas hits pause on 1,800 data center projects to scrutinize power and water demands
Combined, the stalled applications would require 474 gigawatts – far above the Texas grid operator's peak demand
High Bandwidth Flash gets first technical specification for AI data centers
SanDisk and SK Hynix's new memory spec rethinks how AI chips access data
Country music stars unite against data centers spreading across rural America
They say massive server farms threaten rural communities, water supplies, and local landscapes