On Friday, when SpaceX filed plans with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a million-satellite data center network, you might have thought Elon Musk was having a bit of fun with us. But a ...

The windowless buildings rising across North Carolina look more like warehouses than engines of climate change. They have no smokestacks and no obvious emissions. But inside, thousands of servers run ...

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Big tech companies and data center operators are suddenly concerned about their image amid the AI boom. Big tech companies and data center operators are suddenly concerned about their image amid the ...

The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of 13 governors announced an agreement urging the PJM Interconnection — the largest electric grid operator in the U.S. — to “…expand the energy supply, ...

Data centers siphon huge amounts of energy to power artificial intelligence. But their environmental footprint starts to balloon even before the first server switches on due to the immense amount of ...

Microsoft has committed to “paying its way” to ensure its data centers will not ramp up residential utility rates, becoming the first major hyperscaler to publicly commit to a comprehensive framework ...

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In these politically divisive times, there’s one thing we all agree on—we don’t want a giant data center in our backyard. Behold, the hyperscale data center! Massive structures, with thousands of ...

On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a new initiative called “Community-First AI Infrastructure” that commits the company to paying full electricity costs for its data centers and refusing to seek local ...

President Trump was right about Microsoft — but he only leaked part of the story. Microsoft is changing its approach to building massive data centers for artificial intelligence, unveiling what it ...