Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Earlier this month, Google researchers ...

Like people in many communities around the state, White County residents over the past few months have packed public meetings in opposition to data centers. When a developer was considering a project ...

Google is exploring a “moonshot” plan to build artificial intelligence data centers in space – the latest move in its ongoing scramble to keep pace with OpenAI and other rivals. Dubbed “Project ...

As artificial intelligence establishes its presence everywhere, so too have the data centers that power it. Google has a solution to prevent data centers from taking up too much space on Earth — ...

KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI -- The idea of building a data center in Pavilion Township has been put on hold for now. Real estate development firm Franklin Partners approached the township in August to ask a ...

It’s trying to figure out how to turn constellations of solar-powered satellites into data centers. It’s trying to figure out how to turn constellations of solar-powered satellites into data centers.

The tech industry is on a tear, building data centers for AI as quickly as they can buy up the land. The sky-high energy costs and logistical headaches of managing all those data centers have prompted ...

Elon Musk claimed on October 31 that SpaceX will be sending data centers into space. He responded to a post on X from journalist Eric Berger about the viability of the concept. “Simply scaling up ...

As tech companies tout their plans for massive new data centers, consumers are increasingly worried the AI-driven gold rush will ultimately drive up the price they pay for electricity, according to a ...

The modern artificial intelligence boom has created a boom in financial engineering. A lot of people who run big tech companies and AI labs think that they will collectively need to spend trillions of ...

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the economics and environmental impacts of energy-hungry data centers and whether these facilities are sustainable in the age of AI. Tech giants have been ...

OpenAI recently added a new checkout feature to ChatGPT, partnering with Etsy and Shopify to let users purchase some items from select merchants. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino explains how ...