Hacker News with Generative AI: Data Centers

Fire Breaks Out at a Data Center Leased by Elon Musk's X (wired.com)
A fire broke out Thursday morning at a data center in Hillsboro, Oregon, leased by Elon Musk’s X, forcing an extended response from emergency crews, according to multiple sources who spoke to WIRED.
Data Centers, Fire Safety, Elon Musk
6 points by coloneltcb 12 hours ago | 1 comments
'Close to impossible' for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers (theregister.com)
European organizations wanting to break free of American cloud operators may find their hopes dashed, according to industry analysts, for a number of reasons including a sheer lack of datacenter capacity.
Cloud Computing, Europe, Tech Industry, Data Centers
7 points by rntn 1 day ago | 0 comments
Seagate claims spinning disks beat SSDs on carbon footprint (blocksandfiles.com)
A Seagate Decarbonizing Data report says energy usage is a top concern for more than half of business leaders and better use of disks is a wise datacenter choice.
Data Centers, Sustainability, Hardware, Storage
50 points by rbanffy 4 days ago | 71 comments
OpenAI's planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI is poised to help develop a staggering 5-gigawatt data center campus in Abu Dhabi, positioning the company as a primary anchor tenant in what could become one of the world’s largest AI infrastructure projects, according to a new Bloomberg report.
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers, Abu Dhabi
16 points by rntn 5 days ago | 3 comments
Big tech's new datacentres will take water from the driest areas (theguardian.com)
Amazon, Microsoft and Google are operating datacentres that use vast amounts of water in some of the world’s driest areas and are building many more, the non-profit investigatory organisation SourceMaterial and the Guardian have found.
Data Centers, Water Management, Environmental Impact, Technology, Big Tech
4 points by anticorporate 7 days ago | 0 comments
IBM LinuxONE 5: AI-Ready Linux Platform (storagereview.com)
IBM has introduced the IBM LinuxONE 5, a high-performance Linux computing platform designed for data, application, and AI workloads.
IBM, Linux, AI, Data Centers
6 points by giuliomagnifico 7 days ago | 0 comments
AWS says Britain needs more nuclear power to feed AI datacenter surge (theregister.com)
The UK needs more nuclear energy generation just to power all the AI datacenters that are going to be built, according to the head of Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Nuclear Power, AI, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Energy
11 points by rntn 7 days ago | 5 comments
Starcloud (ycombinator.com)
Starcloud is building a network of megawatt-scale data centers in space, scaleable to gigawatt capacity, to be able to train large models like GPT6.
Space, Data Centers, Artificial Intelligence
146 points by wiley1454 10 days ago | 305 comments
OpenAI's Stargate project struggling to get off the ground, due to tariffs (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI’s ambitious Stargate data center project is facing delays thanks to tariff-related economic uncertainty, reports Bloomberg.
OpenAI, Data Centers, Tariffs, Technology, Business
99 points by speckx 10 days ago | 170 comments
xMEMS Ultrasonic Coolers for Power Hungry Transceivers (ieee.org)
A tiny microelectromechanical “fan-on-a-chip” could prove to be a vital way to cool a big source of heat in AI data centers.
Microelectronics, Cooling Systems, AI, Hardware, Data Centers
4 points by WaitWaitWha 20 days ago | 0 comments
Sustainability still not a high priority for datacenter industry (theregister.com)
When it comes to building datacenters, reducing the environmental impact of the project is still not seen as a major concern – it is lower on the list than cost of equipment and materials, skills shortages, a possible downturn in projects, and even bad weather.
Sustainability, Data Centers, Technology, Business, Environmental Impact
7 points by rntn 29 days ago | 1 comments
Oregon house votes to protect consumers from data center power costs (oregonlive.com)
The Oregon House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to shield residential ratepayers and small businesses from the costs of providing electricity to large data centers.
Oregon, Energy, Politics, Data Centers
5 points by rwc9 31 days ago | 0 comments
Amazon has paused some data center lease commitments (cnbc.com)
Amazon, Data Centers, Business, Technology
6 points by panrobo 31 days ago | 0 comments
I Live 400 Yards From Mark Zuckerberg’s Massive Data Center [video] (youtube.com)
Data Centers, Privacy, Social Media, Technology, Real Estate
8 points by modinfo 32 days ago | 2 comments
Amazon has paused some data center lease commitments (cnbc.com)
Amazon, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Business
4 points by mfiguiere 32 days ago | 0 comments
The OVHcloud fire still smolders (2024) (datacenterdynamics.com)
Three years after an OVHcloud data center burned to the ground, more questions than answers about the incident remain
Data Centers, Fire Safety, OVHcloud, Disaster Recovery
20 points by varun_ch 32 days ago | 15 comments
Advantages and Challenges of Nuclear-Powered Data Centers (energy.gov)
Nuclear power has the potential to be a great partner for data centers but there are some hurdles to clear.
Nuclear Power, Data Centers, Energy, Sustainability, Challenges
3 points by mpweiher 39 days ago | 0 comments
Elon Musk's xAI allegedly uses 'illegal' generators to power Colossus facility (tomshardware.com)
Elon Musk, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Data Centers
11 points by rbanffy 41 days ago | 2 comments
Data centres will use twice as much energy by 2030 – driven by AI (nature.com)
The electricity consumption of data centres is projected to more than double by 2030, according to a report from the International Energy Agency published today. The primary culprit? Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Energy, Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers
20 points by gnabgib 43 days ago | 9 comments
Big tech's new datacentres will take water from the driest areas (theguardian.com)
Amazon, Microsoft and Google are operating datacentres that use vast amounts of water in some of the world’s driest areas and are building many more, an investigation by SourceMaterial and the Guardian has found.
Data Centers, Water Resources, Environmental Impact, Technology, Big Tech
11 points by n1b0m 44 days ago | 2 comments
Microsoft reportedly pulls back on its data center plans (techcrunch.com)
Microsoft has pulled back on data center projects around the world, Bloomberg reports, suggesting that the company is wary of expanding its cloud computing infrastructure too rapidly.
Microsoft, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Business, Technology
7 points by pera 50 days ago | 1 comments
Microsoft pulls back on datacenter ambitions (bloomberg.com)
Microsoft Corp. has pulled back on data center projects around the world, suggesting the company is taking a harder look at its plans to build the server farms powering artificial intelligence and the cloud.
Microsoft, Data Centers, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Business
8 points by nikcub 50 days ago | 1 comments
China built AI data centers to Now many stand unused (technologyreview.com)
The country poured billions into AI infrastructure, but the data center gold rush is unraveling as speculative investments collide with weak demand and DeepSeek shifts AI trends.
Artificial Intelligence, China, Data Centers, Economics
6 points by iancmceachern 54 days ago | 0 comments
China built AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Now unused (technologyreview.com)
China, Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers, Technology
4 points by pdyc 57 days ago | 0 comments
Microsoft Abandons More Data Center Projects (datacenterknowledge.com)
Microsoft has walked away from new data center projects in the US and Europe that had been set to consume 2 GW of electricity, according to TD Cowen analysts, who attributed the pullback to an oversupply of the clusters of computers that power artificial intelligence.
Microsoft, Data Centers, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing
41 points by WaitWaitWha 57 days ago | 0 comments
Concerns over Potential Government Misuse of App Store Data Centers (mastodon.social)
Privacy, Government Surveillance, Data Centers, App Stores
5 points by LeoPanthera 57 days ago | 0 comments
A Fire Plunged Heathrow into Darkness. A Nearby Data Center Kept Humming. Why? (nytimes.com)
A fire at an electrical substation near Heathrow on Friday forced a power outage at the airport. It took officials close to 18 hours to bring its terminals and runways back into operation.
Power Outages, Data Centers, Airports, Technology
8 points by -_-_-_- 58 days ago | 7 comments
Schneider Electric pumps $700M into US ops as AI datacenter demand surges (theregister.com)
Schneider Electric plans to spend $700 million through 2027 to expand its US operations and bolster the supply of its power equipment necessary to sustain the proliferation of AI datacenters.
Data Centers, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Investments, Technology
4 points by rntn 58 days ago | 0 comments
Big Tech is striking secret deals to make you foot its electricity bill (archive.org)
Tech companies racing to secure power for their data centers have struck dozens of secretive electricity deals with utilities that could cost average Americans a "staggering" amount, Harvard research found.
Big Tech, Energy, Utilities, Data Centers, Costs
38 points by zekrioca 61 days ago | 3 comments
Elon Musk Installs Quick and Dirty Turbines to Power XAI's Memphis Data Centers (forbes.com)
When Memphis, Tennessee’s grid couldn’t provide all the electricity needed to power xAI’s new Colossus data center, the Elon Musk led artificial intelligence company turned to a quick and dirty solution: mobile natural gas turbines.
Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers, Energy, Elon Musk, Tennessee
10 points by croes 65 days ago | 1 comments