Tag: data centers
Google Cloud CEO lays out 3-part strategy to meet AI’s energy demands after identifying it as the ‘most problematic thing’ | Fortune
The immense electricity needs of AI computing was flagged early on as a bottleneck, prompting Alphabet’s Google Cloud to plan for how to source...
Nvidia CEO says data centers take about 3 years to construct in the U.S., while in China ‘they can build a hospital in a weekend’ | Fortune
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said China has an AI infrastructure advantage over the U.S., namely in construction and energy.While the U.S. retains an edge...
Musk’s xAI to build small solar farm adjacent Colossus data center | TechCrunch
Artificial intelligence startup xAI, founded by Elon Musk, told city and county planners in Memphis last week that it plans to build a solar...
A World Bank expert thinks countries should leverage ‘small AI’—and avoid competing with the biggest tech giants | Fortune
AI is expensive. Processors are expensive, data centers are expensive, power and water are expensive, data acquisition is expensive. Giants like the U.S. and...
Trump DOE gives Microsoft partner $1B loan to restart Three Mile Island reactor | TechCrunch
The Trump administration announced Tuesday it would provide Constellation Energy with a $1 billion loan to restart a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island.
The...
Exclusive: Sam Atlman-backed Exowatt wants to power AI data centers with billions of hot rocks | TechCrunch
When Hannan Happi started thinking about how to solve the AI power crisis, he kept one figure in mind: one cent per kilowatt-hour.
“We went...
Exclusive: Microsoft-backed VEIR is bringing superconductors to data centers | TechCrunch
Power demands of data centers have grown from tens to 200 kilowatts in just a few years, a pace that has data center developers...
Meta bought 1 GW of solar this week | TechCrunch
Meta signed three deals this week to procure nearly 1 gigawatt of solar power as it races to power its lofty AI ambitions.
The trio...
How Data Centers Actually Work
Lauren Goode: Well, they're all interested in growing more. Who among us, Mike? But the hyperscalers refers to this class of major tech companies...
While OpenAI races to build AI data centers, Nadella reminds us that Microsoft already has them | TechCrunch
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Thursday tweeted a video of his company’s first deployed massive AI system — or AI “factory” as Nvidia likes...
