The Data Center Effect: Critical Economic Shifts Leaders Can't Ignore

The AI sector absorbs resources that could fuel growth elsewhere. Economics explains why business activity would not collapse ...

Data centers could soon be orbiting in space

Having data centers “visible in the night sky at dawn or dusk” presents a problem because some observers “rely on twilight to ...

AI Data Centers Demand More Than Copper Can Deliver

SummaryIn data-center terms, scaling out involves linking computers, while scaling up packs more GPUs into a computer, ...
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Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks

Google recently courted the township of Franklin, Ind., so that it could construct a giant campus to house the computer hardware that powers its internet business. But the company needed to rezone ...

4 things to know about the new Amazon data center west of South Bend

Amazon Web Services executive says data center is long-term commitment that company wants to be part of community.
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A.I. Is on the Rise, and So Is the Environmental Impact of the Data Centers That Drive It

The demand for data centers is growing faster than our ability to mitigate their skyrocketing economic and environmental costs Amber X. Chen - AAAS Mass Media Fellow As the demand for A.I.
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5 takeaways: Why Saline Township was sued over rejecting data center for AI, computing

SALINE TWP., MI — A Dallas-based development firm and local landowners have initiated legal action against Saline Township after its board rejected a rezoning proposal for a massive data center ...
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Data center boom is pitting Indiana residents against big tech

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the body that will decide the Henry County Planned Unit Development. It is the Henry County Board of Commissioners. Three years ago, the ...