AI Data Centers Face a Networking Bottleneck as GPU Clusters Grow

AI data centers face a new networking bottleneck as GPU clusters grow, making fabric design, congestion control, and vendor ...
siliconcanals

Qualcomm is about to spend $4B on a startup that makes no chips — because Nvidia's real moat was never the silicon, and Cristiano Amon finally figured out the shortcut

Qualcomm is in advanced talks to buy Modular Inc. Qualcomm is about to spend $4 billion on a company that does not make a single chip. For a business whose name is ...
Ars Technica

When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket

If you hang out in any even vaguely AI-skeptical parts of the Internet, you’ve probably stumbled on plenty of memes and posts premised on data centers’ insatiable thirst for water to power evaporative ...
CBS News

Meta launches program to train workers for data center jobs

Megan Cerullo is a New York-based reporter for CBS MoneyWatch covering small business, workplace, health care, consumer spending and personal finance topics. She regularly appears on CBS News 24/7 to ...
The New York Times

The Movement to Stop Data Centers

What to know about the local backlash against the booming data center industry, the era of me-first energy and more climate news. By Claire Brown The backlash against energy-guzzling data centers has ...
The Texas Tribune

An unprecedented data center boom means new challenges for Texas. Find out what’s planned near you.

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Houston Chronicle

Exclusive: Hundreds of large data centers want to join the Texas grid. ERCOT data shows top hot spots

Data centers are not new to Texas, but the projects seeking to locate here in the coming years are much bigger and more numerous than ever before, according to data shared exclusively with the Houston ...
Snopes.com

Will Utah data center use 16B gallons of water and span almost 3 Manhattans? What to know

In spring 2026, social media users spread a rumor that a new data center in Utah would use about 16 billion gallons of water a year and that the center would be 2.7 times the size of Manhattan. Utah ...
Tennessean

Tennessee is home to dozens of data centers, why a new one faces pushback

A proposed data center next to Nashville Zoo is facing opposition from the zoo, local officials and the broader community. Nashville Zoo has started an online petition against the data center, citing ...
Mashable

Meta is building AI data centers in tents

Meta is building out data centers inside weatherproof tents to speed up construction. Credit: Ömer Sercan Karku/Anadolu via Getty Images Meta can't build AI data centers fast enough, so the company ...
Futurism

Data Centers Have Become Shockingly Unpopular, Poll Finds

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