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Google’s $17 Billion Wyoming Bet Puts AI Power and Water Promises Under Scrutiny

Google’s first Wyoming data center pairs a major investment pledge with fuel-cell power, planned carbon capture and a community te...

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AI Stock Rout Wipes Trillions as Asia Markets Tumble

The Nasdaq fell 5.5% and Asia's tech markets tumbled as investors feared tighter AI and data-center regulation after US midterms.

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Making the AI mind, and book destruction

In the quiet basements of major research institutions and across the hyper-cooled corridors of modern data centers, an unsettling...

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Local zoning meetings will decide AI’s future in America

Far away from the glittering tech corridors of Silicon Valley and the corporate suites of Manhattan, the physical future of artifi...

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Scientists say Elon Musk’s orbital data centers could blind Earth’s biggest telescopes

The prospect of harnessing limitless solar energy and unlimited thermal dissipation by launching computing infrastructure into low...

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Best early Prime Day laptop deals

Navigating the personal computing market has become an increasingly sobering exercise for consumers over the past year. Anyone who...

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Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents | TechCrunch

In a bold move that mirrors Silicon Valley’s most unconventional engineering improvisations, Meta has begun deploying high-perform...

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Nvidia’s MRC: When ‘just Ethernet’ isn’t enough for gigascale AI

In the high-stakes race to construct the computing backbones of artificial intelligence, traditional networking infrastructure is...

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Former Google and Meta engineers build memory-first AI server to challenge Nvidia's GPU dominance

The artificial intelligence hardware landscape has long been defined by a singular, overwhelming reality: the undisputed dominance...

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From GPUs to AI factories: Inside the Nvidia-Google Cloud superstack

The accelerating race to build, train, and deploy foundational artificial intelligence models has triggered an unprecedented re-en...

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Microsoft Resolves Windows Server Upgrade Issue Triggering Automatic 2025 Installs

Information technology administrators across the globe breathed a collective sigh of relief this week as Microsoft officially roll...

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The AI RAM shortage is also driving up SSD prices

PC enthusiasts and hardware builders who watched memory prices spiral out of control during the recent high-bandwidth memory boom...

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Amazon (AMZN) AWS AI Revenue: How Big Is the Opportunity and How Fast Is It Growing? – Alphastreet

Amazon Web Services has long functioned as the cash-flow engine powering Jeff Bezos’s sprawling digital empire, but the fourth-qua...

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AI Infrastructure Wars Are Officially Here — Nvidia's $2B Nebius Push Just Turned Up the Heat

The fierce geopolitical and corporate battle for artificial intelligence infrastructure reached a fever pitch as Nvidia orchestrat...

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SpaceX Bets $74 Billion on AI Supercomputers in Texas and Arizona

SpaceX plans more than $74 billion for two AI supercomputing campuses, a $50 billion Arizona site and a $24 billion-plus Starbase...

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Trump Softens on AI: 'I Don't Mind Guardrails' as Long as America Beats China

Trump told CBS's 60 Minutes that AI risks can be managed and he doesn't mind guardrails, signaling openness to work with Democrats...

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Anthropic Strikes a $3.4 Billion Deal for Gas-Fired Power to Feed Its Data Centers

Anthropic agreed to a $3.4 billion purchase of gas-fired generators for its data centers, taking over Caterpillar equipment orders...

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Microsoft Pulls the Plug on Oracle AI Deal as It Thins Out Its Neocloud Partners

Microsoft is reportedly winding down a 2023 deal to rent AI computing from Oracle and trimming its list of neocloud partners like...