Amazon buys stake in nuclear energy developer in push to power data centres ~enviro energy Link 18 votes
The AI investment boom - large increase in US construction and billions in equipment purchases ~tech Article 2074 words 4 votes
Google signs deal with nuclear company as data center power demand surges ~enviro energy Article 13 votes
Constellation to restart Three Mile Island unit, powering Microsoft ~enviro climate change energy Link 13 votes
Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims ~enviro climate change Article 2248 words 20 votes
A tax break for Washington State data centers promised jobs. Now there are questions about whether the costs are worth it. ~society politics Article 3874 words 7 votes
Anger mounts over environmental cost of Google datacentre in Uruguay ~enviro water.waste Article 708 words 19 votes
Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined ~enviro energy Article 428 words 19 votes
Space data centres: ‘A figment of the imagination’ but one that could make Europe a space leader ~space Article 735 words 15 votes
Microsoft shelves its underwater data center — Project Natick had fewer server failures compared to servers on land ~tech microsoft Article 447 words 20 votes
How a simple fix could double the size of the US electricity grid ~enviro energy.renewable Article 113 words 16 votes
Google will send the waste heat from its data center in Hamina, Finland, to that community's district heating system ~enviro sustainability energy Article 201 words 21 votes
Intelligence community largely won House FISA fight. Now comes the US Senate. ~society politics Article 1435 words 27 votes
Google unveils custom Arm-based chips, following similar efforts at rivals Amazon and Microsoft ~tech google Article 10 votes
Chile puts brakes on Google data center over water use, environmental concerns ~enviro water Link 17 votes
Power companies are scrambling to satisfy the needs of data centers and new factories in the US ~enviro Article 77 words 22 votes
TikTok pledges €12B European investment over ten years as work on Norwegian data center begins ~tech social media Article 286 words 6 votes
Wind farms are building datacenters to offload electricity in non-peak hours ~enviro energy.renewable Video 12:11 16 votes
Microsoft Cloud hiring to "implement global small modular reactor and microreactor" strategy to power data centers ~tech microsoft Link 18 votes
The batshit crazy story of the day Elon Musk decided to personally rip servers out of a data center ~tech social media Article 80 votes
Machines can't always take the heat: How heat waves threaten everything from cars to computers ~engineering Article 1131 words 15 votes
Thames Water is considering measures to cut down the water used by some UK datacenters, including fitting flow restrictors or charging operators more at peak times ~tech Article 648 words 16 votes
Why do cloud providers keep building datacenters in America's hottest city? ~tech Article 819 words 33 votes
Hosting company OVH had a fire at their Strasbourg, France data center last night, completely destroying the "SBG2" location and damaging others ~tech Article 443 words 31 votes
Google's data centers now work harder when the sun shines and wind blows ~enviro energy.renewable Link 8 votes
Iceland has become the world's leading miner of digital currency – then the crypto-crooks showed up ~finance cryptocurrency Article 5103 words 5 votes
The end of silence - The tech industry is producing a rising din, and our bodies can’t adapt ~tech Article 9099 words 12 votes
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company would invest an additional 600 million euros into its Hamina data center next year ~tech google Article 3 votes
Datacentre at Hamina and technology training hub in Helsinki illustrate Google's growing interest in Finland ~tech google Article 784 words 3 votes
Using pre-fab datacentres to meet Norway's growing demand for colocation space ~tech Article 1380 words 4 votes
Apple cancels plans for second data center in Denmark ~tech apple Article 200 words, published Jun 11 2019 6 votes
Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigate whether it can boost energy efficiency ~tech microsoft Article 786 words 15 votes