Meta turns to solar — again — in its data center-building boom
The announcement comes as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg maintains the company’s ambitious AI strategy, which will require hefty ...
Exxon Mobil CEO says natural gas can meet surging data center demand on a faster timeline than nuclear power
Exxon Mobil is building a natural gas power plant and implementing carbon capture technology to power AI data centers.
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New Meta data center in Mesa makes sustainability pledges amid critics' doubts
Meta unveils a data center in Mesa with pledges of sustainability at a time when critics are raising louder concerns about ...
Data center operator DataBank nets $250M equity investment
Data center operator DataBank has raised $250 million in an equity investment and an additional $600 million in a secondary ...
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Q&A: Oppidan’s Johnson on data center development
When Excelsior-based Oppidan Investment Co. began working in the data center sector about nine years ago, the company’s ...
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Multibillion-dollar data center projects to watch
In addition to Oracle and OpenAI's Stargate initiative, Amazon, Meta, Google and other tech giants are building facilities ...
The Current And Future Path To AI Inference Data Center Optimization
While training has been the focus, inference is where AI's value is realized. Training clusters need large amounts of power.
60% cut in data center’s cooling energy consumption with ‘ionic wind’ tech
A Swiss startup called Ionic Wind Technologies has created a new technology to cool down machines that use a lot of power.
OpenAI's $100 Billion Texas Stargate Data Center Will Reportedly Employ Just 57 People With $57,600 Annual Salaries
OpenAI is making big moves with its $100 billion Stargate project. Still, despite its massive price tag, the first data center planned for Abilene, Texas, is raising eyebrows about how few people it ...
Georgia lawmakers introduce legislation to remove data center power costs from residential bills
A group of state lawmakers introduced new legislation to ensure Georgia Power residential customers aren’t on the hook for ...
Data centers galore? How do Ohio's data center numbers stack up against other states?
News about large data centers coming to Ohio and the Columbus area seems to never stop, but how many data centers do we have ...
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Intel Xeon Prices Fall Sharply to Head Off AMD Epyc
When Intel released its Xeon 6980P processor, it put the MSRP at $17,800. That price dropped to $12,460, making for a 30% cut in one move. By contrast, the 5th generation AMD Epyc 9654 has an MSRP of ...