Artificial intelligence harbors an enormousenergy appetite. Such constant cravings are evident in thehefty carbon footprint of thedata centers behind the AI boom and the steady increase over time ofcarbon emissions from training frontierAI models.No w…
Shortly after Amazon announced its $50 billion investment in OpenAI, AWS invited me on a private tour of the chip lab at the heart of the deal.
A 1 Gw orbital data center would cost roughly $42.4B—almost three times its ground-bound equivalent.
Earlier this week, Nvidia surprise-announced their new Vera Rubin architecture (no relation to the recently unveiled telescope) at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The new platform, set to reach customers later this year, is advertised to o…
If a data center is moving in next door, you probably live in the United States. More than half of all upcoming global data centers—as indicated by land purchased for data centers not yet announced, those under construction, and those whose plans are …