Tech firms are floating the idea of building data centers in space and tapping into the sun's energy to meet out-of-this-world power demands in a fierce artificial intelligence race. Elon Musk's ...

This time-lapse image of Venus and the Pleiades shows the tracks of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. The image received an award in the 2021 IAU OAE Astrophotography Contest. (Torsten Hansen / IAU OAE / ...

The village board in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, unanimously approved Microsoft's site plans for 15 more data centers near an existing facility. Jobs at the project could last 10 years, said Mount ...

The tech giant has spent more than $6 million on TV ads in state capitals and Washington, with the message that data centers create jobs. The tech giant has spent more than $6 million on TV ads in ...

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Residents also oppose a data center the size of 18 Walmarts that is set to be built in pristine woodland outside Bessemer, Ala. “All this will be gone,” one said. The woodland around Bessemer, Ala., ...

About 20% of all the data centers in the U.S. are located in eight states around the Great Lakes. As of 2024, the region had 525 data centers — with another 224 planned by 2030, according to data ...

Quincy is a small farming town in Central Washington near the Columbia River, home to one of the world’s top french fry producers. It’s also the model for Microsoft’s nationwide data center strategy.

Microsoft said it's interested in building a data center on a site beside a federal highway outside Grand Rapids, Michigan. In December, planning officials postponed a hearing on the development after ...

These companies will play a crucial role in supporting the AI era. The AI revolution is driving nearly insatiable demand for hardware like high-performance GPUs, CPUs, networking equipment, and ...