Oracle has withdrawn its legal challenge to Wisconsin utility rules that could require the company to provide more than $100 million a year in financial guarantees for electricity infrastructure for i…
Lucidity has expanded its cloud storage optimization platform to support object storage alongside block storage, starting with Microsoft Azure, as AI workloads drive storage costs to 20-30% of the ave…
A global survey of 844 IT professionals published today by UserEvidence on behalf of SolarWinds finds 84% report their return on investment (ROI) in artificial intelligence (AI) has met (30%) or excee…
OpenAI has signed a 20-year lease with SoftBank-backed SB Energy for a massive Ohio data center campus, backed by NVIDIA with a financial commitment of up to $105 billion for the initial phase, which …
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., introduced a Data Center Bill of Rights that would give local governments authority to prohibit data centers in residential areas and within 2,500 feet of homes, schools, chi…
The AI data-center boom is driving investment in industrial equipment makers such as Caterpillar, Cummins, Eaton, Ford, Vertiv, Schneider Electric and Corning, with Caterpillar investing $725 million …
NVIDIA Corp. is in talks to invest up to $3 billion in SB Energy, a SoftBank Group subsidiary building a 10-gigawatt AI data center campus in Ohio for OpenAI, according to The Information. The propose…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise cleared a major legal hurdle in its $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks after U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts approved the antitrust settlement with the U.S. Depa…
Wood Mackenzie estimates that only about 28% of the 1,066 gigawatts of power requested by U.S. data center developers will ultimately be supplied, creating a major planning problem for the electrical …
Convertr has launched Convertr Govern, a governance module that enforces data compliance policies before customer contacts and sales leads are entered into CRM systems or other systems of record. The …
SpaceX and Tesla Inc. announced plans to build Terafab, a 100-million-square-foot semiconductor facility in Grimes County, Texas, with an initial $16.8 billion investment that could reach $119 billion…
Anthropic has signed a $9.1 billion, 20-year computing agreement with Riot Platforms to lease 191 megawatts of capacity at its Rockdale, Texas, campus, with potential revenue up to $16.1 billion inclu…
NVIDIA announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish financing platforms aimed at mobilizing more than $500 billion for AI infrastructure, w…
NAND flash prices have climbed 246% year over year, and NetApp argues that enterprises exposed to the shortage suffer from a structural storage design problem, not a procurement issue. NetApp recommen…
Big Tech's climate pledges are being strained by the massive electricity demands of artificial intelligence, with Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Google backing new gas-fired power projects. Amazon acqui…
More than 500 US towns and counties have enacted bans or restrictions on new data center development, according to an analysis by The Information, with opposition accelerating this summer. The resista…
Amazon's planned Pecos County, Texas AI data center could be powered by a natural gas facility permitted to emit up to 33 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, potentially making it the largest sin…
A structural shift in storage economics, driven by AI's demand for flash memory, has widened the price gap between flash and HDD from 1:3 to 1:10 or 1:15, making all-flash architectures prohibitively …
A Techstrong investigation finds that U.S. opposition to data centers is rising, with a Gallup poll showing a majority of Americans now oppose local data center construction, and Texas Governor Greg A…
AI agents completed about one in three actions in IT workflows studied by Fixify, an IT automation firm, according to a report analyzing 13 weeks of production data from over 40 companies. The share o…