A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...

Tech companies, including Microsoft and Meta, have been falling in love with natural gas lately, rushing to build power plants fed by the fossil fuel to drive their data centers. But their embrace ...

Shark Tank star Kevin O'Leary has plans for a massive data center development in Utah The Stratos Project would be sited on 40,000 acres in Box Elder County. The project includes plans for 7.5 ...

The artificial intelligence industry’s data center boom is the latest chapter in a long history of environmental racism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota ...

MATAGORDA COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- Some people living in Matagorda County are pushing back against proposed data centers in the area. Data centers are large facilities filled with servers that store ...

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 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 ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the March consumer price index report earlier Friday. Here are the numbers at a glance: Overall YoY: +3.3%, higher than February's rate of +2.4%. Overall MoM: ...

Atmoss LLC, the developer behind the Project Anthem data center planned for east Tulsa, has withdrawn its application for zoning changes tied to the project’s second phase, according to city officials ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — State senators have introduced three bills in the past two weeks geared toward limiting data center construction in Ohio. With over 200 data centers and counting, Ohio has ...

A proposed Google data center in Michigan is notable for its use of renewable energy and its ability to ramp down power use during periods of high demand. The plan, announced last week, is a ...

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 ...