Inside a California data center as communities raise concerns about energy costs amid the AI boom

California lawmakers are currently considering several proposals affecting data centers, including legislation intended to ...

SpaceX faces House Energy Committee demand to tour its AI data centers in Memphis

The ranking member of the House Committee on Energy is demanding SpaceX records and a tour of its data centers and power ...
The Conversation

Should Australia pause building new data centres? We asked 5 experts

At first glance a data centre looks like a bland, boring warehouse. But these buildings, stacked with thousands of servers, are the beating heart of the internet and the booming artificial ...
Sports Illustrated

Supercomputer Predicts 2026 World Cup Winner After Group Stage Concludes

The group stage of the 2026 World Cup has come to a close and it’s full steam ahead into the round of 32. We started this summer with 48 teams but are now down to 32. We’ve lost big names like Uruguay ...
Wall Street Journal

Chinese Supercomputer Overtakes U.S. as World’s Fastest

SINGAPORE—The world’s fastest supercomputer isn’t made in America. It is now from China, according to a widely cited ranking. China’s LineShine system won the No. 1 spot on the latest Top500 ...
Yahoo

Local leaders tour Ohio’s data center capital

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (WKBN) — New Albany, a suburb northeast of Columbus, is considered the data center capital of Ohio. With so many communities ...
The Economist

America’s data-centre backlash puts the AI boom at risk

FROM THE top of the slide, which curves into a little backyard pool, the view as recently as April would have been of lush Ohio farmland, dense forest and pretty clapboard houses. Now it is of six ...
Fox Business

Computer wars heat up as Chinese supercomputer tops all US machines in speed for first time since 2017

A Chinese supercomputer system surpassed an American computer for the world's fastest, according to an industry list published in Hamburg, Germany, on Tuesday, giving China the edge over the U.S. with ...
The New York Times

China Takes Supercomputer Crown From U.S. for First Time Since 2017

A supercomputer in Shenzhen was declared the world’s fastest. It uses only standard microprocessors and not the special-purpose chips called graphics processing units. By Don Clark Reporting from San ...
Electrek

Tesla plans to sell modular AI data center hardware called ‘Megapod’

Tesla wants to sell modular AI data center hardware, according to a new trademark application for a product called “Megapod.” The filing describes a complete, self-contained computing system for AI ...
The Virginian-Pilot

Sen. Louise Lucas to lead state tour opposing tax breaks for data centers

A Portsmouth lawmaker is kicking off a state tour to oppose Virginia’s massive tax breaks for data centers — contending many large companies don’t deserve them. Sen. Louise Lucas, chair of the Senate ...