Tag: Data Centers

virginia bans data center ndas and launches an ai task force under spanbergers new order No place on Earth hosts more data centers than Virginia — and the state has now informed its own officials that they may no longer sign secrecy agreements covering them.

Virginia bans data center NDAs and launches an AI task force under Spanberger’s new order

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nvidia google back new alliance trading data center flexibility for qu At its core, this is a bargain. AI data centers promise to pull back on electricity when the grid is under stress, and utilities respond by connecting them years earlier than the usual timeline allows.

NVIDIA, Google back new alliance trading data center flexibility for quicker grid access

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one report just put a number on ais e waste pile 23 million shipping containers by 2050 Picture 23 million shipping containers packed with dead electronics. That, according to a new report, is the scale of the junk heap the AI buildout will leave behind by 2050 — line up that many 40-foot containers end to end and they would circle the planet roughly six times.

One report just put a number on AI’s e-waste pile: 23 million shipping containers by 2050

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philadelphias refinery neighbors are fighting ai data centers that havent been proposed yet BloombergNEF now projects that by 2035, natural gas consumption at U.S. data centers will exceed that of Germany and Japan put together. The forecast is nearly twice what the same analysts published only nine months earlier.

Philadelphia’s refinery neighbors are fighting AI data centers that haven’t been proposed yet

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larry ellison scraps his planned 7 5 billion oracle share sale Fifty million shares. Somewhere in the neighborhood of $7.5 billion. Struck from the schedule, with no reason attached.

Larry Ellison scraps his planned $7.5 billion Oracle share sale

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anthropic reportedly plans to tell ipo investors that the public hates The very document meant to persuade investors to back Anthropic will reportedly carve out space to explain how deeply the public resents what firms like Anthropic do.

Anthropic Reportedly Plans to Tell IPO Investors That the Public Hates AI

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