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Compute is leaving land. Recoverability isn’t following.

The cloud is a misleading metaphor. Every digital transaction happening at any time ultimately depends on limited physical infrastructure, such as servers occupying land, cooling systems consuming water and electricity, and cables crossing oceans. Artificial intelligence is just exposing those…

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AI Stocks Fall as Data-Center Concerns Grow

Democrats’ midterm victories put prominent critics of AI data centers in positions to intensify scrutiny of the industry, with campaigns targeting the projects’ energy use, environmental effects and local impacts. The results could slow data-center expansion and complicate the AI…

Data Centers

The buildings, campuses and GPU clouds of the AI buildout, the fights they start and the hardware inside them, in the US and worldwide.

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Inside Data Centers

The AI Data Center Boom The AI buildout itself: gigawatt campuses and new projects such as Stargate Abilene, Hyperion, Fairwater and Colossus, their cost, builders and suppliers.
Local Fights & Moratoriums Communities against data centers: zoning votes, lawsuits, moratoriums, county and state politics, and the tax breaks offered to developers.
Water, Noise & Pollution The environmental toll of data centers: water use, noise, gas-turbine and diesel-generator emissions, and studies of AI's footprint.
Neoclouds & GPU Rentals GPU cloud providers renting AI compute, CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda, Crusoe, Nscale and IREN, and bitcoin miners turning to AI hosting.
Data Centers Worldwide AI data centers outside the US, from India and the Gulf to Europe, Japan, Malaysia and Latin America, and national data-center policies.
Inside the Data Center The hardware inside AI data centers: liquid cooling, power equipment, networking and optics, racks and servers from Dell, Supermicro, HPE, Arista and Vertiv.

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