Tag results for: data centers
America’s Biggest Bitcoin Miners Are Pivoting to AI
One afternoon in June 2024, I stood up against the fence of a sprawling industrial facility a few miles outside of Corsicana, Texas. Over a metal gate, I...
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 or cloud service providers....
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,...
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...
