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X is experiencing a data center outage
If you had trouble using X today, you're not alone. DownDetector reports that over 5,000 people have reported issues ...
AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse
A new analysis of AI hardware being produced and how it is being used attempts to estimate the vast amount of electricity ...
OpenAI Commits to Giant U.A.E. Data Center in Global Expansion
The Stargate UAE project is part of a push by the Gulf petrostate to become a big player in artificial intelligence.
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T5 data center in Illinois topped out
T5 Data Centers has topped out its data center in Northlake, to the west of the city of Chicago, Illinois. “Topping out” ...
Hays County residents are fighting a proposed data center. It'll likely be built anyway
Hays County residents packed a courtroom Tuesday to hear some of the first information related to a planned 96-acre, up to ...
OpenAI's biggest data center secures $11.6 billion in funding, WSJ reports
A data center in Texas that startup Crusoe is building for OpenAI has secured $11.6 billion in funding to expand from two to ...
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The Download: the desert data center boom, and how to measure Earth’s elevations
The corporate race to amass computing resources to train and run artificial intelligence models and store information in the ...
OpenAI's Abilene data center secures $11.6B in part thanks to Austin-area investment firm
The additional funds bring the total amount secured for the project to $15 billion and will add six additional buildings to the campus. Read more about Stargate's first data center.
Fire Breaks Out at a Data Center Leased by Elon Musk’s X
The fire department said a room with batteries contributed to the blaze at a building leased by Elon Musk’s X near Portland, ...