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Span, a California-based startup, has developed small, fractional data centers, or "nodes," called XFRA units. The idea is to take advantage of unused electrical capacity on local grids, which the ...

Data centres have become controversial on Earth. Technology firms want to put them in orbit, but there are challenges ahead. As the huge data centres powering the artificial-intelligence boom grow ...

On a Saturday morning, you head to the hardware store. Your neighbors’ Ring cameras film your walk to the car. Your car’s sensors, cameras and microphones record your speed, how you drive, where ...

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. As ...

The chips that datacenters use to run the latest AI breakthroughs generate much more heat than previous generations of silicon. Anybody whose phone or laptop has overheated knows that electronics ...

Don't think that Excel is just for numbers. Many people populate Excel's seemingly infinite grids with data, using it as a flat-file database. It can serve as a relatively effective contact manager or ...