Louisiana Hands Meta a Tax Break and Power for Its Biggest Data Center
The agreement sets out hiring timelines that the company must also hit to receive these tax incentives: Meta can receive ...
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Big Tech Dreams of Putting Data Centers in Space
For one thing, the systems he imagines process data relatively slowly compared to those on terra firma. They’d be constantly ...
Trump’s Cook firing will likely end up in the Supreme Court’s hands
The U.S. Supreme Court is shown March 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. Win Mcnamee | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump's unprecedented attempt ...
X Data Center Fire in Oregon Started Inside Power Cabinet, Authorities Say
A recent, hours-long fire at a data center used by Elon Musk’s X may have begun after an electrical or ...
Block shares soar 10% on entry into S&P 500
Jack Dorsey, co-founder and chief executive officer of Twitter Inc. and Square Inc., listens during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in ...
Why electricity prices are surging for U.S. households
Kilito Chan | Moment | Getty ImagesElectricity prices are rising quickly for U.S. households, even as overall inflation has cooled.Electricity ...
How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying
“People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses,” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, wrote in ...
A Political Battle Is Brewing Over Data Centers
“I think it’s the right policy, for us to take a national standard,” they said.While the intent of the AI ...
AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse
AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, research published Thursday in the ...
Donald Trump Wants to Save the Coal Industry. He’s Too Late
The promise of new demand is driving some utilities to reconsider scheduled coal plant retirements. In Virginia, where Amazon Web ...
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