52 stories tagged data-centers, newest first.
213 points by rustybolt | 164 comments
New York Post report that Google cleared about 250,000 trees in northern Finland for data centers before environmental approval, prompting Finnish authorities to suspend work.
8 points by mikelgan | 2 comments
Computerworld news article on Google's deal with Voltus for a 1GW virtual power plant that pays consumers to cut electricity use, freeing grid capacity for data centers.
100 points by jlundberg | 140 comments
A Berget AI blog post comparing per-request CO2 emissions of AI inference in Texas versus Sweden; the page returned a 502 Bad Gateway error.
288 points by wetwater | 235 comments
TechSpot news article on Finnish regulators questioning Google's clearing of 300 hectares of forest for a data center before environmental review finished.
28 points by hn_acker | 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.
75 points by stokedmartin | 31 comments
Engineering at Meta blog post describing Prometheus, Meta's gigawatt-scale AI supercluster and the data center and networking work behind it.
153 points by rooftopzen | 45 comments
Cloudflare Radar bot traffic page for Yandex's network (AS13238) over 7 days; the capture shows only a Cloudflare security verification screen.
66 points by andsoitis | 59 comments
Google's Data Centers site with an interactive map and search for locating the data centers Google owns and operates worldwide.
26 points by gmays | 33 comments
An a16z American Dynamism article explaining why Texas's grid operator paused new data center interconnections amid a surge of large-load requests.
33 points by PLenz | 4 comments
A Bluesky post claiming bot traffic fell to near zero after a strike on a data center in Vladimir, Russia.
23 points by mfiguiere | 7 comments
Bloomberg Markets article and video about the collapse of a planned $30 billion IPO by data center company Firmus within 48 hours.
30 points by SLHamlet | 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.
170 points by ortusdux | 184 comments
United24 Media news article reporting that Yandex's largest Russian data center was damaged, the company's second data center hit within 48 hours.
469 points by sensanaty | 608 comments
Local Nebraska TV news report on how an improperly redacted annual report revealed water and electricity usage of Google's Lincoln data center.
57 points by wslh | 59 comments
Reuters report, citing the FT, that Amazon is seeking to offload about $8 billion worth of Nvidia chips to investors; the page showed only a device verification screen.
214 points by gmays | 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.
148 points by Thom2503 | 156 comments
NL Times news article reporting that most data centers in the Netherlands refuse to disclose how much water and electricity they use.
158 points by Betelbuddy | 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.
10 points by JumpCrisscross | 6 comments
WSJ article about a rural town where every household would receive $10,000 if a proposed data center is built; the capture shows only a device verification screen.
68 points by dabinat | 54 comments
BBC news article reporting Zelensky's claim that Russia has expanded its strikes to target Ukrainian data centres.
127 points by Betelbuddy | 107 comments
Financial Times article on Oracle being obligated to pay data centre investors even if a site lacks electricity; the capture shows a Cloudflare security check with a 403 error.
20 points by dgellow | 2 comments
Quartz article reporting Oracle stock fell 4% after the company invoked force majeure with its developer on a troubled New Mexico AI data center project.
104 points by simonpure | 92 comments
Bloomberg article reporting that Oracle invoked a force majeure clause to shield itself over a controversial AI data center project.
32 points by mikhael | 34 comments
New York Times article on Wall Street investors growing skeptical of AI data center IPOs; the capture shows only a captcha page.
497 points by berkeleyjunk | 415 comments
Wall Street Journal article reporting that AWS cannot restore some customer data from Middle East data center facilities struck by Iran.
463 points by doener | 337 comments
Capital B News article reporting that the EPA proposes rule changes limiting public input on pollution permits for data center projects.
365 points by lukaspetersson | 326 comments
BBC News article reporting that Google has picked Finland for its largest single investment in Europe, tied to buying nuclear power for data centres.
628 points by technewssss | 317 comments
Futurism article reporting that AI companies are using off-balance-sheet arrangements to hide large amounts of debt.
357 points by 01-_- | 153 comments
404 Media news article about Henrico County, Virginia, home to 37 data centers, asking schools to conserve electricity.
443 points by nitin_flanker | 381 comments
NVIDIA blog post explaining how its AI servers run on 45°C warm-water liquid cooling, improving data center efficiency and cutting water use.
442 points by maxloh | 231 comments
Tom's Hardware news article about a Texas city selling land a farmer donated for a park, for $10M to a data center developer, with $30M in expected taxes.
375 points by greedo | 202 comments
A 404 Media article about a city building a massive data center on land a farmer donated for use as a park.
449 points by vnglst | 196 comments
A personal blog post with notes and insights from attending Mistral AI's AI Now Summit in Paris, covering its full-stack strategy, compute, and open custom models.
359 points by hirpslop | 320 comments
California WaterBlog post examining AI and data center water use, arguing concerns are overstated and drawing lessons for California water management.
600 points by LucidLynx | 478 comments
A personal blog essay warning about rising hardware prices, shrinking consumer choice, and computing power shifting toward data centers, urging readers to keep their own hardware.
375 points by spenvo | 220 comments
CNBC article reporting that OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle, and examining Oracle's debt-funded AI buildout.
355 points by latexr | 175 comments
Blood in the Machine newsletter post by Brian Merchant on people across the US dismantling Flock surveillance cameras amid anger over ICE ties and privacy violations.
359 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 596 comments
Washington Post article on how the roughly $700 billion AI spending boom is causing shortages of electricians, components, and pricier smartphones elsewhere in the economy.
1035 points by ajyoon | 1222 comments
A CivAI blog post by Andrew Yoon arguing that proposals by SpaceX/xAI, Google and startups to put AI data centers in orbit make no sense.
363 points by FreeQueso | 187 comments
A satirical Substack post framed as a credit rating report on how Meta keeps $27 billion in data center debt off its balance sheet.
320 points by reaperducer | 310 comments
New York Times interactive article explaining how OpenAI uses circular deals involving chips, data centers, cloud computing, funding and stock to finance its growth.
441 points by voxleone | 607 comments
Washington Post business article on how US investment is flowing into an AI boom rather than a manufacturing revival.
441 points by meetpateltech | 569 comments
OpenAI announcement of a strategic partnership with NVIDIA to deploy 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for its AI infrastructure.
317 points by throw0101c | 310 comments
Paul Kedrosky blog post arguing AI capital expenditure is large enough to affect US economic statistics, approaching railroad-boom levels as a share of GDP.
370 points by rbanffy | 192 comments
Helen Toner's Substack essay criticizing OpenAI's Stargate UAE project and the framing of building AI supercomputers for autocratic governments.
469 points by jonbaer | 171 comments
CNBC article reporting that Google will allow companies to run its Gemini AI models in their own data centers.
373 points by suraci | 304 comments
Bloomberg article reporting an analyst's claim that Microsoft has begun canceling leases for AI data center capacity amid questions about AI demand.
971 points by tedsanders | 1382 comments
AP News article on Trump announcing the Stargate Project, a $500 billion AI infrastructure partnership of SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle and MGX to build data centers.
547 points by dban | 252 comments
Railway blog post on why the company moved off Google Cloud Platform and how it approached building its own data center infrastructure.
550 points by atomic128 | 447 comments
Wall Street Journal article on Google agreeing to buy power from nuclear-energy startup Kairos Power; the capture shows only a device verification screen.
636 points by mootpt | 291 comments
Meta engineering blog post describing its large GPU training clusters for generative AI, including RDMA and InfiniBand networking, Grand Teton hardware, and storage.
414 points by eastdakota | 194 comments
Cloudflare blog post by Matthew Prince explaining the November 2023 outage of its control plane and analytics services.