Tag: data centers
The year data centers went from backend to center stage | TechCrunch
There was a time when most Americans had little to no knowledge about their local data center. Long the invisible but critical backbone of...
Alphabet to buy Intersect Power to bypass energy grid bottlenecks | TechCrunch
Google parent Alphabet has agreed to buy Intersect Power, a data center and clean energy developer, for $4.75 billion in cash plus the assumption...
Georgia regulators approve 50% power capacity boost, betting that massive AI data center demand will eventually materialize | Fortune
Georgia’s only private electric utility plans to increase power capacity by 50% after state regulators on Friday agreed 5-0 that the plan is needed...
A grassroots NIMBY revolt is turning voters in Republican strongholds against the AI data-center boom | Fortune
Silicon Valley and Washington sees data centers as the backbone of America’s AI future. Residents who live next to them see giant, humming boxes...
Boom Supersonic raises $300M to build natural gas turbines for Crusoe data centers | TechCrunch
Aircraft startup Boom Supersonic said Tuesday it will start selling a version of its turbine engine as a stationary power plant, and that its...
Google Cloud CEO lays out 3-part strategy to meet AI’s energy demands after identifying it as the ‘most problematic thing’ | Fortune
The immense electricity needs of AI computing was flagged early on as a bottleneck, prompting Alphabet’s Google Cloud to plan for how to source...
Nvidia CEO says data centers take about 3 years to construct in the U.S., while in China ‘they can build a hospital in a weekend’ | Fortune
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said China has an AI infrastructure advantage over the U.S., namely in construction and energy.While the U.S. retains an edge...
Musk’s xAI to build small solar farm adjacent Colossus data center | TechCrunch
Artificial intelligence startup xAI, founded by Elon Musk, told city and county planners in Memphis last week that it plans to build a solar...
A World Bank expert thinks countries should leverage ‘small AI’—and avoid competing with the biggest tech giants | Fortune
AI is expensive. Processors are expensive, data centers are expensive, power and water are expensive, data acquisition is expensive. Giants like the U.S. and...
Trump DOE gives Microsoft partner $1B loan to restart Three Mile Island reactor | TechCrunch
The Trump administration announced Tuesday it would provide Constellation Energy with a $1 billion loan to restart a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island.
The...
