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The newest AI boom pitch: Host a mini data center at your home

Data centers may be coming to your neighborhood as side installations associated with new homes—and in exchange would offer subsidized electricity and Internet access along with backup batteries to homeowners. The company behind the plan has already begun pilot testing in preparation for a 100-home trial run this year. The “distributed data center solution” announced […]

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Silicon Valley bets $200M on AI data centers floating in the ocean

Silicon Valley investors, such as Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, have bet hundreds of millions of dollars on deploying AI data centers powered by waves in the middle of the world’s oceans—a move that coincides with the mounting challenges tech companies are facing in building AI data center projects on land. The latest investment round of

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The great American data center divide

In Tazewell County, Illinois, Michael Deppert depends on a natural pool of water beneath the sandy soils of his farm to irrigate the pumpkins, corn and soybeans growing in his fields. So when a data center was proposed about eight miles away, he feared it would tap the same aquifer, potentially eroding crop yields and

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Why Is Your Electric Bill Going Up? Blame the Broken Grid.

Our grid is too old and our supply of electricity too small. If we don’t meet this moment, we will face an impoverished future.

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Maine Governor Vetoes Bill That Would Have Paused New Data Centers

Gov. Janet Mills said she rejected what would have been the nation’s first moratorium on data centers because it failed to exempt a project in a distressed mill town.

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Musk’s SpaceX Goals Shift Ahead of Its I.P.O.

As SpaceX prepares to go public, Mr. Musk has proposed moonshots that differ from the company’s original aim of reaching Mars.

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