Why Don’t Data Centers Use More Green Energy?

Reliance on fossil fuels is almost unavoidable — at least for now.

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Fire at South Korean Data Center Causes Government Service Outages

Hundreds of state services were offline the day after a lithium battery exploded during maintenance work at a data center, officials said.

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OpenAI to Join Tech Giants in Building 5 New Data Centers in U.S.

Working with the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and the cloud company Oracle, the A.I. start-up will spend $400 billion over the next five years.

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Nvidia to Invest $100 Billion in OpenAI

The chipmaker’s investment in the San Francisco start-up is an indication of the wild financial figures being tossed around in the world of artificial intelligence.

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What Wall Street Sees in the Data Center Boom

Data center capacity has become a barometer for both the health of the tech market and the risk of an A.I. bubble.

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Elon Musk Has Focused on xAI Since Leaving Washington

Mr. Musk spent the summer at his artificial intelligence start-up xAI, trying to match the runaway success of OpenAI. The result was chaos.

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What Exactly Are A.I. Companies Trying to Build? Here’s a Guide.

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta and OpenAI plan to spend at least $325 billion by the end of the year in pursuit of A.I. We explain why they’re doing it.

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How Wall Street’s Big Bets on A.I. Are Driving Interest in Huge Parking Lots

J.P. Morgan, Blackstone and other financial giants are buying “industrial outdoor storage,” sites vital to logistics, trade and the construction of data centers.

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In the Wake of the Kirk Assassination, a Call for Leadership

The killing of the political activist raises new questions about the rise of targeted violence against public figures like politicians and business leaders.

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OpenAI Signs $300 Billion Data Center Pact With Tech Giant Oracle

The funding covers more than half of the A.I. data centers that OpenAI plans to build in the U.S. over the next several years.

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