US grid battery storage hits record, even as clean energy incentives are rolled back
America's power grid just crossed a battery tipping point
Data center articles
AMD is selling $60 billion worth of GPUs – and a piece of itself – to Meta
Any lingering hope for affordable gaming GPUs just took another hit
Editor's take: AMD and Meta have joined the growing circus of reciprocal deals Big Tech is using to bootstrap what it hopes will become a self-sustaining "AI economy." Under a new multi-year agreement, the two companies will closely align their technology roadmaps – though AMD's role comes with strings attached, including hitting specific performance targets in the stock market.
Farmers are rejecting massive offers as AI data centers hunt for land
For many landowners, this isn't a real estate deal – it's a legacy
Sam Altman compares AI energy use to the cost of "training" humans, says water-usage concerns are "fake"
"It also takes a lot of energy to train a human"
WTF?! It seems OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has grown tired of defending AI's consumption of our planet's rapidly depleting natural resources. In a recent interview, he said water-usage concerns over data centers were "fake," before highlighting the shocking amount of energy it takes to "train a human."
Meta signs major Nvidia deal to power AI data centers with Blackwell and Rubin GPUs
WhatsApp will feature "privacy-enhanced AI" with Nvidia's Confidential Computing platform
Western Digital's HDD production for 2026 is already sold out
Some customers have already bought up capacity through 2028
In context: Western Digital is one of the few remaining hard disk drive manufacturers in the world. According to its latest earnings call, the company now does most of its business with AI data center providers – and they are purchasing as many HDDs as possible, years ahead of schedule.
Micron's world-first PCIe Gen 6 SSD doubles data rates for AI data centers
Liquid-cooled drives and PCIe Gen 6 mark a new era for AI storage
Elon Musk wants to launch AI satellites from the Moon using a giant catapult
Moon-based mass driver could hurl AI satellites into orbit
Global chip sales are on track to hit $1 trillion thanks to AI
Chipmakers are optimistic, but unsure how long the AI build-out will last
Hard drives aren't done yet: Western Digital is pushing HDD performance toward SSD territory
New high-bandwidth and dual-actuator drives target data center workloads with QLC-level throughput
Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX with plans for space-based AI infrastructure
Rocket company wants to turn low Earth orbit into a global data center layer
AI browsers are about to eat the internet
The future of on-device AI might just be... Chrome
Microsoft's Maia AI chip ambitions might include an exclusive SK Hynix HBM3e memory deal
Big Tech buying all the memory chips they can, for years to come
Satya Nadella argues that Microsoft's AI bet is paying off as Copilot usage nearly triples
Let's rename everything "Copilot"
Microsoft built a 750W AI chip to challenge Nvidia's dominance, claims 3x performance gains over Amazon
The Maia 200 AI accelerator packs 140 billion transistors on a 3nm process
Intel says it's selling every chip it can produce, so it's feeding AI servers first
More expensive Xeons are getting priority over Core, even if it means fewer consumer CPUs
TSMC struggles to meet surging AI chip demand amid data center boom
Ripple effect: While critics and PC enthusiasts are cheering for the AI bubble to burst, Big Tech and enterprise ventures cannot buy AI accelerators fast enough. In fact, even one of the world's most important chip manufacturers is now facing significant issues with its ability to meet customer demand.
Data centers are now the fastest-growing part of US construction
Amazon, Google, and Oracle continue to bankroll enormous projects despite inflation and tariffs
EPA shuts down xAI's off-grid turbine loophole at Colossus data center in Memphis
EPA says gas turbines must meet federal clean air rules
Why the future of data centers might be smaller than you think
From spaceborne servers to backyard sheds, computing infrastructure is scaling down in surprising ways
Apple plans to mass-produce its first AI server chips in 2026
Cupertino is bringing its silicon playbook to the cloud
Trump says tech giants, not consumers, must pay higher electricity costs tied to AI data centers
Microsoft could respond later today as pressure over AI data centers grows
Big Tech's AI boom is reviving America's nuclear power debate
Federal money and deregulation are accelerating nuclear restarts
A new map reveals the true scale of America's AI data center boom
Researchers are using open-source intelligence, satellite imagery, and local permits to map facilities
Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin early, signaling a faster AI hardware cycle
The six-chip Vera Rubin system claims up to 5× training compute and a 10× reduction in inference costs.