Oxide Cuts Data Center Power Consumption in Half(oxide.computer)

134 points by tosh 1 year ago | 93 comments

AI Data Centers May Consume More Electricity Than Entire Cities(cnbc.com)

41 points by belter 1 year ago | 48 comments

US Grid Constraints: Towards 40GW+ of Behind-the-Meter Datacenter by 2028?(newsletter.semianalysis.com)

26 points by felixdoerp 3 months ago | 36 comments

Republican data center support collapses locally when sites are in GOP counties(pressaudit.org)

30 points by SLHamlet 17 days ago | 1 comments

A PressAudit report by Paul Renshaw on how Republican support for data centers drops locally as proposed sites move into more Republican counties.

Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote(startupfortune.com)

341 points by smartmic 11 days ago | 237 comments

Startup Fortune article reporting that JPMorgan, MUFG and other banks are struggling to distribute $38 billion in construction debt for Oracle-leased AI data centers.

Georgia needs to produce more electric power for data centers(ajc.com)

46 points by sciurus 2 years ago | 39 comments

Texas data center boom could erase decades of progress on air quality(texastribune.org)

28 points by hn_acker 4 days ago | 10 comments

Texas Tribune article on a HARC report warning that Texas's data center boom could reverse decades of air quality gains, especially if powered by natural gas.

Wall Street Is Growing Skeptical of the Data Center Boom(nytimes.com)

32 points by mikhael 1 month ago | 34 comments

New York Times article on Wall Street investors growing skeptical of AI data center IPOs; the capture shows only a captcha page.

Republican data center support collapses locally when sites are in GOP counties(pressaudit.org)

30 points by SLHamlet 17 days ago | 1 comments

A PressAudit report by Paul Renshaw on how Republican support for data centers drops locally as proposed sites move into more Republican counties.

Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes(nytimes.com)

214 points by gmays 25 days ago | 165 comments

New York Times article on how Meta uses AI data center investments to avoid billions in federal taxes; the capture shows a captcha page.

AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom(thenationalnews.com)

158 points by Betelbuddy 26 days ago | 191 comments

The National news article reporting that the AI industry would need about $6 trillion in annual revenue by 2031 to justify the data centre build-out.

Data Center Darling's $30B IPO Dream Crushed in 48 Hours(bloomberg.com)

23 points by mfiguiere 16 days ago | 7 comments

Bloomberg Markets article and video about the collapse of a planned $30 billion IPO by data center company Firmus within 48 hours.