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The Middle East has long been keen on becoming a data center hub: as early as 2017, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) launched an AI strategy that was designed to place it…
China is drafting a plan to spend roughly 2 trillion yuan ($295 billion) over five years on a nationwide web of AI data centers. The goal is for at least 80% of…
Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rare metal-resistant bacteria…
To say that data centers are becoming unpopular would be the understatement of the decade. Cities, states, and countries are racing to impose strong restrictions on new buildouts, when they're not…
A $1 billion data center that Microsoft and Abu Dhabi-based AI firm G42 planned to build in Kenya has stalled after the Kenyan government failed to meet Microsoft's demand for…
…Declining gaming revenue has been massively offset by increasing data center revenue, unsurprisingly. AMD’s data center revenue is up 107% year-over-year, representing $6.7 billion of revenue. AMD expects…
After a $16 billion Stargate AI data center was built despite being voted down, Michigan towns rush to block new buildouts — massive facility will suck 1.4 Gigawatts of energy to power…
…Servers The residents of Archbald, Pennsylvania have started pushing back against the six planned data centers in the town, which will take up about 14% of its land area. Servers Governor Janet…
…AI and data centers Photonics and high-speed data movement is the next big AI bottleneck The data center cooling state of play Massive AI data center buildouts are squeezing energy supplies…
Back in 2020, Intel first showed off its multi-tile data center GPU codenamed "Arctic Sound," part of the Xe-HP (High Performance) family. It was supposed to represent one part of…