How fast you can train gigantic new AI models boils down to two words: up and out. In data-center terms, scaling out means increasing how many AI computers you can link together to tackle a big ...

Powering data centers is receiving significant attention at the federal level with the Department of Energy’s Advanced Notice ...

The EEIDD met and approved the PILOT program that outlined how public entities will be paid if a data center projects lands ...

As an electricity crunch drives bills higher around the country, big tech companies building power-hungry data centers are increasingly offering to pay for more of the energy they consume, so everyday ...

In 2024, a state senator introduced a bill in the Colorado Legislature that proposed to bestow data centers and other large-volume users of energy with tax incentives. The senator, a Democrat from ...

As far as unheralded IT undertakings go, decommissioning a data center still sits atop most CIOs’ list. Yet the complex work ...

Editor's note: This is the first of three feature articles Ars is publishing to explore the financial, technical, and competitive dimensions of orbital data centers. Although the idea of putting data ...

In data-center terms, scaling out involves linking computers, while scaling up packs more GPUs into a computer, challenging copper’s physical limits. Copper cables face a phenomenon at high data rates ...