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OpenAI Teams Up With Oracle and SoftBank to Build 5 New Stargate Data Centers

OpenAI is planning to build five new data centers in the United States as part of the Stargate initiative, the company announced on...

Louisiana Hands Meta a Tax Break and Power for Its Biggest Data Center

The agreement sets out hiring timelines that the company must also hit to receive these tax incentives: Meta can receive the highest property...

Big Tech Dreams of Putting Data Centers in Space

For one thing, the systems he imagines process data relatively slowly compared to those on terra firma. They’d be constantly bombarded by radiation,...

X Data Center Fire in Oregon Started Inside Power Cabinet, Authorities Say

A recent, hours-long fire at a data center used by Elon Musk’s X may have begun after an electrical or mechanical issue in...

How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying

“People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses,” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, wrote in an aside in...

AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse

AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, research published Thursday in the journal Joule shows....

Donald Trump Wants to Save the Coal Industry. He’s Too Late

The promise of new demand is driving some utilities to reconsider scheduled coal plant retirements. In Virginia, where Amazon Web Services keeps 96...

Generative AI and Climate Change Are on a Collision Course

In 2025, AI and climate change, two of the biggest societal disruptors we're facing, will collide.The summer of 2024 broke the record for...