Americans are rallying against data centers. Surprisingly few are actually getting built | CNN Business
People really don’t like AI data centers.
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How a Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist
The world’s most valuable assets are stored on rows of servers in giant, anonymous buildings. And they can be stolen.
Why American data centers can't plug in
The AI buildout is bottlenecked by energy. But America has the electricity to power its data centers; the problem is getting it to them.
That process is significantly backlogged. Though the median power plant in 2005 waited less than 20 months for interconnection, this had jumped to 55 months by 2023.
The interconnection process wasn’t created for today’s world. Grids use an inflexible first-come, first-served queue that leaves some of the most valuable projects stuck behind less important ones.
Google has sold so much TPU capacity that its own researchers are queueing for the rest
Alphabet runs the most enviable AI infrastructure stack in the industry. The success of the third-party deals with Anthropic and Meta is the reason internal access has become a competitive resource. Google has spent a decade quietly building the most enviable position in AI…
Lasers Are The Heartbeat Of The Optical AI Data Center
These III-V semiconductors are essential for super-high bandwidth optical interconnects.
AEP sees contracted capacity surge to 63GW, 90% tied to data centers
9GW increase on previous quarter, raises capital plan to $78bn
https://opengridworks.com/power-plants
In Edison’s Revenge, Data Centers Are Transitioning From AC to DC
Could switching to 800 V DC be the key to more efficient data centers?
Anthropic's Compute Advantage: Why Silicon Strategy is Becoming an AI Moat
Why Anthropic’s integration into hyperscaler silicon programs may give it a lasting advantage in the economics of frontier AI.
Solving the heat problems: How silicon photonics is redefining thermal efficiency in data centers
Interconnect efficiency is now essential and photonics can help
The Datacenter Bible - From Layman to Expert in 100 Pages
The definitive 100+ page guide to the thermodynamics, scarcity, and heavy assets powering the AI revolution.
Owning a $5M data center
Data centers are cool, everyone should have one.
The Hidden Physics of Running Data Centers in Orbit - EE Times
As data centers move toward Earth's orbit, thermal management becomes a major challenge, forcing engineers to rethink system design in space.
How AI Labs Are Solving the Power Crisis: The Onsite Gas Deep Dive
Bring Your Own Generation, Sayonara Electric Grid, Turbines vs. Recips. vs. Fuel Cells, Why Not Build More CCGTs?, Onsite Power TCO
https://www.datacentermap.com/
The Accounting Uproar Over How Fast an AI Chip Depreciates - Slashdot
Tech giants including Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon have all extended the estimated useful lives of their servers and AI equipment over the past five years, sparking a debate among investors about whether these accounting changes are artificially inflating profits. Meta…
Liquid cooling: The next evolution in data center thermal management
Immersion cooling on the horizon
A Deep Dive Into Datacenter And Server Spending Forecasts
Spending on AI systems in 2024 just utterly blew by the expectations of the major market researchers and those who dabble in metrics like we do. There has
A Crucial Optical Technology Has Finally Arrived
Nvidia's endorsement of co-packaged optics means the time is right
Data center energy consumption
Datacenter Anatomy Part 2 – Cooling Systems
Cluster deployments are an order of magnitude larger in scale with Gigawatt-scale datacenters coming online at full capacity much faster than most believe. As such, there are considerable desi…
Datacenter Anatomy Part 1: Electrical Systems
Meta Datacenter Scrapped, Vertiv, Schneider Electric, Eaton, Legrand, Delta, Datacenter Bill Of Materials By Component, Transformers, Switchgear, Redundancy, UPS, OCP Busbar, Generators, Substation…
The Road Ahead For Datacenter Compute Engines: The CPUs
It is often said that companies – particularly large companies with enormous IT budgets – do not buy products, they buy roadmaps. No one wants to go to
Can We Build a Five Gigawatt Data Center?—Asterisk
By 2030, leading AI labs will need data centers so massive they will require the power equivalent of some of America’s largest cities. Will they be able to find it?
What Do You Lose When You Abandon the Cloud?
Cloud repatriation might seem like a solution for high infrastructure costs, but it can prove short-sighted as an organization scales.
Hot Aisle Containment - 42U
Exhausting hot air away from your servers with Hot Aisle Containment solutions eliminates bypass airflow issues and reduces data center energy consumption and lowers your related power costs.
How to Build an AI Data Center
This piece is the first in a new series from the Institute for Progress (IFP), called Compute in America: Building the Next Generation of AI Infrastructure at Home. In this series, we examine the challenges of accelerating the American AI data center buildout. Future pieces will…
How to Make Off Grid Data Centers Affordable
Pick your UPS flavor
A deep-dive into the different types of UPS systems
Study: Only 13% of provisioned CPUs and 20% of memory utilized in cloud com
Cast AI analysis finds drastic over provisioning
81 Data Center Stats You Should Know In 2023
Data center stats you should know for 2023. A comprehensive list of colocation and data center statistics from Brightlio.
The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives
In this deep-dive explainer, we look at a big-business mainstay.
How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip
Air cooling holdouts take notice, the fun stuff is all liquid
Why AI Inference Will Remain Largely On The CPU
Sponsored Feature: Training an AI model takes an enormous amount of compute capacity coupled with high bandwidth memory. Because the model training can be
RISC-V In The Datacenter Is No Risky Proposition
It was only a matter of time, perhaps, but the skyrocketing costs of designing chips is colliding with the ever-increasing need for performance,
Setting The Stage For 1.6T Ethernet, And Driving 800G Now
Marvell has had a large and profitable I/O and networking silicon business for a long time, but with the acquisitions of Inphi in October 2020 and of
Five key reasons to switch to GaN - DCD
It may be the only way to keep up with environmental power regulations
Google increases server life to six years, will save billions of dollars
While Meta ups to five years
Downtime is not an option – meet the stewards of the cloud | Aeon Essays
Hot, strenuous and unsung. There is nothing soft and fluffy about the caretaking work that enables our digital lives
CXL Enables Microsoft Azure To Cut Server Capital Expenditures By Hundreds
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R2: What it Means to be 1 Less Than S3 - by Doug (mule) - Fabricated Knowle
In the battle of bandwidth and compute, Cloudflare has a strong hand. A dive into networking infrastructure.
Intel Networking: Not Just A Bag Of Parts
What is the hardest job at Intel, excepting whoever is in charge of the development of chip etching processes and the foundries that implement it? We
Data Center Pricing – Know the Four Basic Elements And What To Expect
More enterprises are migrating their corporate data center(s) to external co-location facilities. One of the many challenges they face is navigating disparate and confusing pricing models. Some providers only charge for power and network while others charge for power, space and…
Datacenter Anatomy Part 1: Electrical Systems
Meta Datacenter Scrapped, Vertiv, Schneider Electric, Eaton, Datacenter Bill Of Materials By Component, Transformers, Switchgear, Redundancy, UPS, ATS, OCP Busbar, Generator Sets, Substation