PHOENIX—A new style of architecture is rising in the sprawling suburbs of the Sonoran Desert: windowless data centers that hum 24 hours a day and guzzle as much electricity as a midsize city. As ...

Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...

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A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...

Data centers are physical facilities that house the technology needed for digital services like generative AI and cloud computing. The growth of data centers is raising environmental concerns due to ...

Keystone Trade Center Building 6 (center; purple detail), seen in January 2026, is set to become an Amazon data center at the Keystone Trade Center industrial ...

SpaceX wants to put up to a million data centers in orbit. There are a few technological hurdles standing in the way. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world ...

Web infrastructure giant Cloudflare is seeking to transform the way enterprises deploy AI agents with the open beta release of Dynamic Workers, a new lightweight, isolate-based sandboxing system that ...

A broad majority of Americans have heard about data centers – the often-sprawling computing facilities that are popping up nationwide. But the public has mixed opinions about data centers’ impact in ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. As Anthropic and the Pentagon clashed over how the military should use AI, another new reality of ...

Big Tech has targeted thousands of communities to house its AI data centers. Here’s how you can defend your community. Big Tech has targeted thousands of communities to house its AI data centers. Here ...

Data centers are being built at a frantic pace all over the world, driven by the AI boom. These facilities consume staggering amounts of electricity. By 2028, AI servers alone may use as much energy ...