Oracle to use Bloom Energy fuel cells to power 2.45 GW AI data center microgrid in New Mexico

Bloom Energy jumps as Oracle picks 2.45GW fuel cells for Project Jupiter AI data center microgrid, cutting emissions and ...

Striim Enables a New Wave of Enterprise AI Innovation on Google Cloud with Validata Cloud, AI Agents, and MCP AgentLink

Today, Striim announced new capabilities on Google Cloud that will enable enterprises to build and operate a new class of AI-driven systems powered by real-time, trusted data. The announcement ...

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows ...
Le Lézard

Snowflake Expands Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code to Power the Control Plane for the Agentic Enterprise

Snowflake , the AI Data Cloud company, today announced significant updates across Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code, advancing its vision to become the control plane for the agentic enterprise.
Reuters

Investors press Amazon, Microsoft and Google on water, power use in US data centers

LONDON, April 6 (Reuters) - Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet's Google have each recently abandoned construction of multibillion-dollar data centers over community opposition and now the companies are ...
TMCnet

EDB Postgres® AI Delivers Superior Predictability vs. Cloud Data Warehouses in High-Concurrency Benchmark, Unveils Q1 Platform Updates to Power the Agentic AI Era

Independent benchmark by McKnight Consulting Group reveals EDB Postgres AI for WarehousePG delivers up to 58% cost savings and more consistent concurrent performance, while new platform features ...
Forbes

Data Centers Are Growing Fast. How We Build And Power Them Matters More Than Ever

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mindy Lubber is CEO and president of Ceres, a sustainability nonprofit organization. This voice experience is generated by AI.
Wired

Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers Use

Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually ...
USA Today

Google cuts data center power use to ease strain on US grids

Google has signed agreements with five U.S. electric utilities in states from Arkansas to Minnesota to curtail its electricity use during periods of peak demand, the company said on March 19, in its ...
The New York Times

Why tech giants are ditching the power grid

In a few short years, the technology industry has transformed places like central Ohio, where farmland is giving way to data centers and computer chip factories. In a few short years, the technology ...
BGR

Why Some Power Strips Have A Reset Button (And When To Use It)

Power strips and surge protectors aren't complicated. They often have minimal buttons, usually a power button or switch, with various ports and outlets. The power strips that offer protection ...