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Amazon’s AWS outage has knocked services like Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo and more offline
On this crisp October morning, it feels like half of the internet is dealing with a hangover. A severe Amazon Web Services outage took out many, many websites,...
OpenAI’s Blockbuster AMD Deal Is a Bet on Near-Limitless Demand for AI
The data center gold rush hinges in part on the idea that models will improve in line with the laws of scaling—so long as they’re trained on more...
Why do AI data centers use so many resources?
With the AI boom, construction of new data centers has skyrocketed, and not without consequence — some communities that count these facilities as neighbors are now facing water...
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its data centers for mass surveillance of Palestinians
Microsoft has ended access to its data centers for a unit of the Israeli military that helped power a massive surveillance operation against Palestinian civilians, according to a...
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 Tuesday. The sites, which are...
NVIDIA is investing up to $100 billion in OpenAI to build 10 gigawatts of AI data centers
NVIDIA will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as the ChatGPT maker sets out to build at least 10 gigawatts of AI data centers using NVIDIA chips...
