Google says it plans to invest $40B through 2027 in three new data centers in Texas, including one co-located with a new solar and battery energy storage plant
The State's Latest AI Infrastructure Seth Bodine / Houston Business Journal : Google to invest $40 billion in Texas data centers Newsmax : Google to Invest $40B in Data Centers in Texas Lana Ferguson ...
Sources: in recent months, Nvidia has asked its suppliers to change the design of server racks for Blackwell GPUs several times to overcome overheating problems
PowerEdge XE9712 servers are enterprise-ready Kate Irwin / PCMag : Nvidia's Delayed Blackwell AI Chips Overheating in Servers Matthew Gooding / DatacenterDynamics : Nvidia redesigns 72-GPU AI server r...
BlackRock, GIP, Microsoft, and MGX announce a new AI fund that seeks to raise $30B+ of private equity capital and $100B+ in total investment when including debt
Should we be worried? Louisa Clarence-Smith / The Times : BlackRock and Microsoft to launch $100bn AI infrastructure fund Aaron Holmes / The Information : Microsoft, BlackRock to Launch $30 Billion Fu...
A backlash against data centers has triggered laws in Arizona, Georgia, and other parts of the US to restrain the rapidly growing, energy-intensive industry
Antonio Olivo / Washington Post : X: @postlocal , @paula_in_pwc , @montroseva , @jessefelder , @postlocal , and @postlocal X: @postlocal : Despite being a major source of tax revenue, there are conce...
Oxide Computer, which aims to provide on-premise cloud computers including to clients like the Idaho National Laboratory, raised a $44M Series A led by Eclipse
Today we are announcing the general availability of the world's … Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat : Cloud vs. on-prem? Oxide wants to bring together the best of both worlds Intel Capital : Investing in O...
AWS will spend $35B on new data centers in Virginia by 2040, creating ~1,000 jobs, in exchange for tax breaks and potentially up to $140M in performance grants
Welcome to Mostly Cloudy! Today: AWS vows to spend billions … The Information : Amazon Web Services to Spend $35 Billion on Data Centers in Virginia Dan Swinhoe / DCD : AWS to invest $35 billion expa...
How Facebook, which had around 37,000 employees at the end of last year, thinks about its IT strategy and builds most of its IT tools in-house
If you have ever worked at any sizable company, the word “IT” probably doesn't conjure up many warm feelings. If you're working for an old … Tweets: @kristphr , @grahamgilbert , and @codorniou Tweets...
iPhones are the closest thing to a hardware annuity stream tech has ever seen, as they're a known quantity, dependable, and nearly all users will buy again
@stratechery https://stratechery.com/... Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : The iPhone Franchise http://stratechery.com/... @stratechery // Smart. Interesting to consider the iPhone annuity stream relative ...
Google's Schmidt: NSA Spying on Data Centers Is ‘Outrageous’
HONG KONG—Google Inc. Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt bristled at reports that the U.S. government allegedly spied on the company's data centers, describing such an act as “outrageous” and potentially...
Data Centers: Facebook Will Ice Backup Data in ‘Sub-Zero’ Building
Facebook will house its new breed of storage servers next to this Prineville, Ore. data center. Photo: Pete Erickson/Wired — We now know what Facebook is up to in Sub Zero — the mini data center it...