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For years, mysterious electrical anomalies have been flummoxing grid managers around the world. Every 60 seconds, the frequency on the grid would drop a tiny bit. Even weirder: The sags happened at the exact same time on power grids across countries and continents. It was a mystery that Dirk Witthaut, a researcher at Forschungszentrum Jülich…
Meta President Dina Powell McCormick said that the Democratic wins in the midterm elections are going to make it a lot harder for companies to build data centers, adding that the industry has “not done as good a job as we needed to explain the benefits of these investments.” Speaking at the WSJ Tech conference…
The Nov. 3 midterm results gave Democrats full control of Congress, setting the stage for what could be one of the most divided U.S. governments this decade, with Republicans in the White House. Tuesday’s results suggest that anger over data centers, the large facilities that house the computers powering AI, is becoming a political force….
“Voters reject data centers in nearly 50 ballot initiatives during midterms in major setback to AI bigwigs” Voters overwhelmingly rejected AI data centers on election night – dealing a major setback to Elon Musk and other tech bigwigs pushing a massive buildout. At least 50 ballot measures dealing with data centers — either allowing them…
Stuck in years-long lines for grid connections and new turbines, some AI data centers are making their own electricity with converted jet engines, the New York Times reported Tuesday. The engines, pulled from retired aircraft and rebuilt to burn natural gas, aren’t anyone’s idea of a permanent power plant. But they’re another sign of how…
U.S. data centers use 17 to 19 billion gallons of water to cool their hot-running chips each year — and that number is expected to triple in the next five years, according to the Water Foundation. That’s an expensive and politically tricky proposition for investors throwing billions of dollars at the challenge of scaling up…
On Thursday evening, I slipped on my neon yellow heels and a floral mini dress. It’s New York, so I can wear whatever I want to a midterm election event full of media types, techies, policy advocates, and, well, does anyone else even exist at these things? I walked into the dimly blue-lit Brooklyn warehouse…
Private equity giant Blackstone is putting itself at the center of the AI boom, firm veteran Jas Khaira discussed last week on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. It is writing checks via various strategies, ranging from offering massive loans to data centers to investing in frontier AI models and applications. Earlier this year, the firm launched…
Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman said the company has stopped using nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) in its dealings with government agencies as it seeks approval to build new data centers. Garman’s statement is just one sentence in a longer blog post in which he tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers, and…
Massachusetts became the latest state to force data centers to bring their own power, but this time there’s a twist. A new state mandate would require developers building data centers larger than 25 megawatts to provide clean power or pay into a ratepayer protection fund. Gov. Maura Healey’s executive order is the latest example of…