Survey finds Americans worry about AI data centers, but still want the jobs
Nearly 40% say data centers are bad for the environment and energy costs
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That Doom-running, human brain cell-powered computer is headed for data centers
What just happened? Following news that its human brain cell-powered computer can run Doom, Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs has announced it is working on two small data centers running on the same technology.
This startup wants to build data centers inside floating offshore wind platforms
The design combines offshore wind, seawater cooling, and built-in space for servers
Seagate is now shipping HAMR disk drives holding up to 44TB of data
A hyperscaler's dream for cheap and plentiful storage technology, with some caveats
Intel's 18A node debuts in the data center with the 288-core Xeon 6+
Clearwater Forest uses Darkmont efficiency cores and advanced 3D chip packaging
Trump calls on Big Tech to supply their own electricity for AI data centers (updated)
Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others are expected to participate
The big picture: With electricity bills rising due to surging demand from AI data centers, President Trump has called for technology companies to either build their own power plants or help finance new power generation facilities. The directive comes amid growing protests from rural communities over energy-intensive AI data centers that have been rapidly expanding across the country.
Diamond-cooled AMD Instinct MI350X servers get major $300 million customer
Synthetic diamond heat spreaders aim to boost performance per watt
Google is building a Minnesota data center powered by wind, solar, and rust
The 1.9 GW facility will rely on iron-air batteries instead of lithium-ion cells
Nvidia's blockbuster quarter eases AI spending fears as data center revenue explodes
But graphics card supply constraints remain a major hurdle
US grid battery storage hits record, even as clean energy incentives are rolled back
America's power grid just crossed a battery tipping point
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