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The scary secret behind the boom in data centers

Tue, 06/04/2024 - 05:22

A three-headed dog guarding a data center — Arif Qazi for BI

Tech, Discourse, Law, AI, freelance-illustration, rebecca-zisser, arif-qazi

A centuries-old Japanese ceramics maker has found itself at the center of the AI revolution

Sat, 04/27/2024 - 06:53

Maruwa ceramics — Japanese ceramics company Maruwa is banking on demand for its heat-dissipating products.
MARUWA

AI, Tech, energy, AI, data-centers, ceramics, Japan

A viral TikTok is igniting a debate over data centers taking over Virginia's countryside

Mon, 03/25/2024 - 14:36

A data center is under construction in Ashburn in Loudon County, Virginia, on July 16, 2023. — Data centers have come to dominate Northern Virginia.
Ted Shaffrey/AP

Tech, AI, tiktok, Virginia, data-centers

AI execs who urgently need more energy to power their tech revolution are turning to fossil fuels

Sun, 03/24/2024 - 16:11

A row of computer servers in a data center — Demand for data centers is expected to grow as companies use AI, fueling a need for nonrenewable energy sources.
Jason Marz/Getty Images

energy, AI, Tech, AI, coal, natural-gas, data-centers

Meet a startup trying to keep your screen time from destroying the planet

Fri, 01/26/2024 - 11:02

Tech Insider : Economy

A row of computer servers in a data center — Demand for data centers is expected to grow as companies use AI.
Jason Marz/Getty Images

Sustainability, Tech, economy, Sustainability, Climate, data-centers, energy

Get ready for 'AI factories'

Wed, 10/18/2023 - 13:31

nvidia ceo jensen huang and foxxconn ceo young liu — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (L) and Foxconn CEO Young Liu announcing their partnership to build "AI factories."
Chiang Ying-ying/AP Photo

Tech Insider, nvidia, generative-ai, artificial-intelligence, Foxconn, data-centers

Phoenix plans to build gas plants to help power new data centers

Fri, 10/13/2023 - 14:02

Phoenix Arizona downtown cityscape aerial shot of the skyline — To keep up with demand, a Phoenix utility under a recently approved plan could add some two gigawatts of new natural-gas plants by 2035.
dszc/Getty Images

Sustainability, sustainability-newsletter, Sustainability, edit-series, editorial-sponsorship, es-deloittesustainability-2023, data-centers

Amazon dominated the first cloud era. The AI boom has kicked off Cloud 2.0, and the company doesn't have a head start this time.

Wed, 10/04/2023 - 05:00

Amazon ceo Andy Jassy — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

Tech Insider, amazon, amzn, nvidia, nvda, amd, anthropic

AI has a big, dirty problem that is tarnishing Big Tech's environmental image

Sat, 09/02/2023 - 09:10

Facebook data center under construction in Eagle Mountain, Utah, in 29109 — Construction workers building a new Facebook data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah, in May 2019.
George Frey/Reuters

Tech Insider, big-tech, AI, climate-change, GPUs, data-centers, Sustainablity

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