The renewable energy company Panthalassa says it has a solution to the proliferation of AI data centers, which consume massive amounts of energy and are the cause of increased carbon pollution: ...

“The biggest threat to a data center is if the intelligence can be packed locally on a chip that’s running on the device and then there’s no need to inference all of it on like one centralized data ...

Just one problem: No one seems to want a data center in their backyard. Communities oppose them because they consume massive ...

No single standard addresses every security risk. The core challenge for AI data center operators is the lack of integration ...

Due to the explosive growth of artificial intelligence, it is estimated that data centers will consume up to 12% of total U.S ...

States and communities should welcome this digital infrastructure, but only on terms that protect ratepayers, workers, water ...

Data center development has focused on massive projects for AI training in obscure locations. AI inference is pushing construction closer to cities.

Editor's note: This is the first of three feature articles Ars is publishing to explore the financial, technical, and competitive dimensions of orbital data centers. Although the idea of putting data ...

For the past several years, the concept of “bring your own generation” (BYOG) has been gaining traction at the U.S. federal and state levels to address the surging need for electricity to meet the ...

Why modern data centers are uniquely vulnerable to power quality disturbances caused by utility switching operations and ...