U.S. utility companies are planning to invest $1.4 trillion over the next five years to update the nation's ailing power grid as the data center boom intensifies the need for electricity. That's ...

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Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data. When Shanna Johnson was winding ...

The new kernel's number ends in zero, but it's not a milestone release. Linux 7.0 boasts improvements in Rust, its scheduler - and it's further embracing AI. More than half a dozen distros will let ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders proposes a federal moratorium on data center construction (“AI Is a Threat to Everything the American People Hold Dear,” op-ed, April 3). Trying to hit the “pause” button on ...

The US federal government’s central energy information agency is planning to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use, according to a letter seen by WIRED.

The booming data center industry faces growing pushback from communities and politicians. Industry executives worry that there hasn't been a coordinated response to its image problems. As states ...

Hyperscales are increasingly tapping private credit and debt markets to finance the build-out of AI data centers. The huge sums of money flowing into the sector pose both risks and rewards for ...

The United States has more than 3,000 operational data centers, and that number is expected to grow substantially in the years ahead. More than 1,500 new data centers are in various stages of ...

Wisconsin is becoming a hub for large-scale data centers due to its freshwater, cool climate, and low land costs. Data centers require enormous amounts of water and electricity for cooling, raising ...

Torvalds and the Linux maintainers are taking a pragmatic approach to using AI in the kernel. AI or no AI, it's people, not LLMs, who are responsible for Linux's code. If you try to mess around with ...

PCWorld reports on a Valve engineer’s kernel patch that optimizes VRAM allocation for 8GB AMD graphics cards on Linux gaming systems. The patch prioritizes GPU memory for games over other applications ...