What is a data center? Everything Hoosiers need to know about AI data centers

The data center boom continues in Indiana. But what are data centers, and why are people upset about them coming to our state ...

Newport News is almost ready to pitch data center proposal. Here’s what to expect.

Newport News officials are nearly ready to present their plans for data center development to city and community leaders for ...
EDN

Spansion Helps to Reduce Energy Consumption in Internet Data Center Servers by up to 75 Percent and Expand Memory Capacity

Spansion unveiled plans for a new class of memory, called Spansion EcoRAM, designed to solve the growing energy consumption crisis in Internet data centers by replacing power-hungry DRAM in data ...
WHIO

I-TEAM: Data centers, water, and secrets: Companies using NDAs to hide their names, water usage

MIAMI VALLEY — There are hundreds of data centers operating across Ohio. The facilities power the internet and Artificial Intelligence (AI). There are at least two more of them on the way to the ...
The New Yorker

Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid

Drive in almost any direction from almost any American city, and soon enough you’ll arrive at a data center—a giant white box rising from graded earth, flanked by generators and fenced like a prison ...
Yahoo! Sports

Apple, Facebook, Google Internet data centers getting greener, report finds

SAN FRANCISCO, April 2 (Reuters) - Apple Inc, Google Inc and Facebook Inc have made significant progress in adopting renewable energy sources to power their Web services, the environmental group ...
Wired

How Data Centers Actually Work

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the economics and environmental impacts of energy-hungry data centers and whether these facilities are sustainable in the age of AI. Tech giants have been ...
Wired

The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived

On Election Day, Peter Hubbard was one of two Democratic candidates who took a decisive—and surprising—victory in Georgia. Hubbard was elected to the Georgia Public Service Commission, the body that ...
ConsumerAffairs

What is a ‘data center’ and how much electricity does it use?

Dominion Energy says its upcoming $11-a-month rate hike is driven by grid upgrades and inflation — not Virginia’s rapidly growing data-center industry. Critics note that Virginia hosts one of the ...

Data Centers

Data centers that house the Internet and AI computing are growing at a record rate but raise concerns over environmental impact. Years of disappointment have sapped investor interest in the California ...
DatacenterDynamics

From the mushroom cloud to cloud computing - the allure of extreme data storage

Today, data sovereignty regulations reinforce nation-state borders in the cloud. Far from early emancipatory visions of the ...
CNN

Data centers are spiking electricity costs in Maryland. It’s the ‘tip of the iceberg,’ one expert warns

Nike Carstarphen’s electricity bill is rising, even when she’s using less power. The Baltimore resident’s electricity rate jumped 20% from August to September, even though she had cut her usage 40%, ...