Hacker News with Generative AI: Data Centers

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
6 points by rntn 2 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 3 days ago | 0 comments
Amazon has paused some data center lease commitments (cnbc.com)
Amazon, Data Centers, Business, Technology
6 points by panrobo 4 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 4 days ago | 2 comments
Amazon has paused some data center lease commitments (cnbc.com)
Amazon, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Business
4 points by mfiguiere 5 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 5 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 12 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 14 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 16 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 17 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 23 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 23 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 27 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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -_-_-_- 31 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 31 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 34 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 38 days ago | 1 comments
Nvidia DGX Spark (nvidia.com)
Powered by the NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, NVIDIA DGX™ Spark delivers 1000 AI TOPS of AI performance in a power-efficient, compact form factor.
Nvidia, AI, Hardware, Supercomputers, Data Centers
15 points by tanelpoder 38 days ago | 10 comments
Cerebras to start datacenters in N. America, France packed with AI accelerators (theregister.com)
Cerebras has begun deploying more than a thousand of its dinner-plate sized-accelerators across North America and parts of France as the startup looks to establish itself as one of the largest and fastest suppliers of AI inference services.
AI, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Data Centers, France
4 points by rntn 46 days ago | 0 comments
Linear Pluggable Optics Save Energy in Data Centers (semiengineering.com)
Linear pluggable optics (LPO) is garnering more attention as a way to quickly and efficiently move data in and out of server racks, but a lack of standards for connecting the optical modules is slowing adoption at a time when there is growing pressure to reduce power in data centers.
Data Centers, Networking, Energy Efficiency, Optical Technology
15 points by PaulHoule 49 days ago | 6 comments
The Making of a Data Center – Hetzner Timelapse [video] (youtube.com)
Data Centers, Timelapse, Video, Technology, Hetzner
16 points by jasoncartwright 52 days ago | 0 comments
A case for QLC SSDs in the data center (engineering.fb.com)
The growth of data and need for increased power efficiency are leading to innovative storage solutions.
Data Centers, SSDs, Storage, Power Efficiency
37 points by loeg 53 days ago | 0 comments
Data Centers on the Moon: Genius or Foolhardy? (ieee.org)
Tomorrow, 26 February, SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket carrying an Intuitive Machines mission that will stay on the surface of the moon for approximately three weeks before returning to Earth. Among other things, the Intuitive Machines lander contains a mini data center, massing just 1 kilogram and containing 8 terabytes of SSD storage. This belongs to Lonestar Data Holdings and is part of a proof-of-concept mission meant to bring moon-based data centers closer to reality.
Space Exploration, Data Centers, Technology, Moon
7 points by jnord 59 days ago | 0 comments
Microsoft dropped some AI data center leases, analyst says (yahoo.com)
Microsoft Corp. has canceled some leases for US data center capacity, according to TD Cowen, raising broader concerns over whether it’s securing more AI computing capacity than it needs in the long term.
Microsoft, AI, Data Centers, Cloud Computing
63 points by mgh2 61 days ago | 2 comments
Microsoft cancels leases for AI data centers, analyst says (bloomberg.com)
Microsoft Corp. has canceled some leases for US data center capacity, according to TD Cowen, raising broader concerns over whether it’s securing more AI computing capacity than it needs in the long term.
Microsoft, Data Centers, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing
402 points by suraci 61 days ago | 339 comments
Pollution from Big Tech's data centre boom costs US public health $5.4bn (ft.com)
Pollution from Big Tech’s data centre boom costs US public health $5.4bn
Big Tech, Data Centers, Environmental Impact, Public Health, Cost
201 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 61 days ago | 160 comments
Malaysia is betting on data centers to boost its economy (apnews.com)
Malaysia is betting that potential economic growth from data centers justifies the risk.
Malaysia, Data Centers, Economics, Environmental Impact
120 points by rntn 65 days ago | 110 comments