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Data Centers Are Not “Campuses”

In recent months, a particular word has begun to circulate with striking insistence in press releases across the United States. Technology companies and government officials announce the construction ...
Terrestrial data centers are so 2025. We're taking our large-scale compute infrastructure into orbit, baby! Or at least, that ...
They form the backbone of social media platforms, e-commerce sites and other technologies. They pay big tax bills but suck up ...
New rules by the PJM power network will fast-track combined data center and power generation projects, favoring new gas ...
There was a time when most Americans had little to no knowledge about their local data center. Long the invisible but critical backbone of the internet, server farms have rarely been a point of ...
Prime Data Center in Vernon, Calif. on Dec. 25, 2025. Prime Data Center in Vernon, Calif. on Dec. 25, 2025.Los Angeles Times—Getty Images Editor at Large Data centers are hot. Literally. In the U.S., ...
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Net’s data center moves 10 terabytes of data per second — each second has enough capacity to allow each attendee of a sold-out University of Michigan football game to stream a high-definition movie on ...
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are pushing back againt the AI industry from opposite ends of the political spectrum. Rising electricity costs and risks to grid stability ...
Elon Musk wants to put AI data centers in orbit. A company in Redmond beat him to it. Elon Musk announced he had merged his ...