Hacker News with Generative AI: Data Centers

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 3 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -_-_-_- 7 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 7 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 10 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 14 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 14 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 22 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 25 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 28 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 29 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 36 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 37 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 37 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 37 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 42 days ago | 110 comments
Orchestrating GPUs in data centers and private clouds (dstack.ai)
Recent breakthroughs in open-source AI have made AI infrastructure accessible beyond public clouds, driving demand for running AI workloads in on-premises data centers and private clouds. This shift offers organizations both high-performant clusters and flexibility and control.
AI Infrastructure, Data Centers, Private Clouds, Open Source
25 points by latchkey 43 days ago | 5 comments
Meta's Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights (cacm.acm.org)
Hyperscalers, such as Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Tencent, have developed planetary-scale infrastructure to deliver cloud, Web, or mobile services to their global users.
Cloud Computing, Infrastructure, Meta, Hyperscale, Data Centers
20 points by flakiness 53 days ago | 6 comments
Linux kernel tweak could cut data center power usage by up to 30% (networkworld.com)
An improvement to the way Linux handles network traffic, developed by researchers at Canada’s University of Waterloo, could make data center applications run more efficiently and save energy at the same time.
Linux, Data Centers, Energy Efficiency, Networking
5 points by thunderbong 56 days ago | 1 comments
US datacenters in for shock as Canada mulls cutting the juice over Trump tariffs (theregister.com)
Trump's tariffs are raising a new question mark over US datacenters and their expanding energy consumption, with price hikes possible as Canada threatens to withhold energy supplies in response.
Politics, Energy, Data Centers, Canada, United States
16 points by rntn 58 days ago | 2 comments
Intel has officially missed the boat for AI in the datacenter (theregister.com)
Any hope Intel may have had of challenging rivals Nvidia and AMD for a slice of the AI accelerator market dissolved on Thursday as yet another GPU architecture was scrapped.
AI, Hardware, Competition, Data Centers
7 points by pseudolus 58 days ago | 0 comments
DeepSeek reportedly has 50k Nvidia GPUs and spent $1.6B on buildouts (tomshardware.com)
Hardware, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Data Centers
10 points by jonnybgood 58 days ago | 5 comments
Analyst firm say DeepSeek has 50000 Nvidia GPUs and spent US $6B on buildouts (tomshardware.com)
Nvidia GPUs, Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Data Centers, Computing
14 points by heresie-dabord 59 days ago | 3 comments
Show HN: Perforator – cluster-wide profiling tool for large data centers (github.com/yandex)
Perforator is a production-ready, open-source Continuous Profiling app that can collect CPU profiles from your production without affecting its performance, made by Yandex and inspired by Google-Wide Profiling.
Open Source, Performance Monitoring, Data Centers, Cloud Computing
78 points by BigRedEye 60 days ago | 13 comments
Perforator – cluster-wide continuous profiling tool for large data centers (github.com/yandex)
Perforator is a production-ready, open-source Continuous Profiling app that can collect CPU profiles from your production without affecting its performance, made by Yandex and inspired by Google-Wide Profiling.
Open Source, Monitoring, Profiling, Data Centers, Performance
26 points by simonpure 61 days ago | 1 comments
Linux kernel could cut energy use in data centres by up to 30 per cent (uwaterloo.ca)
Researchers at the Cheriton School of Computer Science have developed a small modification to the Linux kernel that could reduce energy consumption in data centres by as much as 30 per cent.
Linux, Data Centers, Energy Efficiency, Computer Science
33 points by stefanhoelzl 65 days ago | 4 comments
Ask HN: I need interviews with datacenter employees for a grad school project (ycombinator.com)
I’m a material science grad student at UC Berkeley doing a datacenter sustainability project for the school of Haas’ Lean Launchpad class.
Data Centers, Sustainability, Research, Interviews, Business
13 points by caloricflow 67 days ago | 13 comments
Update to Linux kernel could cut energy use in data centres by up to 30% (uwaterloo.ca)
Researchers at the Cheriton School of Computer Science have developed a small modification to the Linux kernel that could reduce energy consumption in data centres by as much as 30 per cent.
Energy Efficiency, Linux, Data Centers, Computer Science
9 points by paulv 69 days ago | 1 comments