How Data Centers Actually Work

In this episode of "Uncanny Valley," we discuss the economics and environmental impacts of energy-hungry data centers and ...

The internet just had another global outage. Why does this keep happening?

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform that powers much of the internet, went down for several hours Monday, ...
The Economist

The murky economics of the data-centre investment boom

THIS SPRING McKinsey made what seemed to be an extraordinarily bullish forecast of capital spending on the chips, data centres and energy to produce artificial intelligence (AI): $5.2trn worldwide in ...
The Washington Post

What it looks like in the world’s data center capital

As artificial intelligence usage soars, so has demand for data centers to power it. Cities are grappling with what that means for their residents’ electricity bills and the reality of living in the ...
The Economist

Could data centres ever be built in orbit?

WHERE IS THE best place to build a data centre? Not on Earth at all, but in orbit, claims Philip Johnston, chief executive of Starcloud. The cost of launching things into space is falling fast, and ...