Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:42:45 +0000
Facebook parent Meta wants to find developers that can provide nuclear reactors to support electricity demand from the tech company’s data centers and artificial intelligence (AI) efforts. The group said […]
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:04:15 +0000
Everywhere you turn these days people are talking about data centers and the enormous amount of electrical power they are expected to demand as artificial intelligence (AI) platforms scale up and become more
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Credit to Author: Joe Morgan| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:45:16 +0000
As artificial intelligence (AI) adoption skyrockets—and especially generative AI (genAI)—the underlying infrastructure powering these technologies faces unprecedented demands. Data centers, the nerve centers of AI operations, rely heavily on electricity, […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 20:57:00 +0000
A company that provides connectivity and colocation services for customers across North America has announced plans to build a data center campus in Central Ohio. Cologix, headquartered in Denver, Colorado, […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:58:06 +0000
Nuclear power plants are still being dismantled, and the business of decommissioning remains strong, but the need for more baseload power and emissions-free generation has some companies ready to restart idled
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Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 18:24:46 +0000
The AI craze is threatening to overwhelm utility companies who don’t have enough electricity to power new data centers.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 21:19:30 +0000
Tech giant Microsoft announced an initial investment of $1 billion to support three new data centers in Licking County, Ohio. The company on Oct. 28 confirmed construction of campuses in […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 01:33:10 +0000
The power generation sector is looking at numerous ways to provide enough electricity to satisfy demand from data centers. Bloomberg Intelligence recently said its research shows data centers, buildings filled […]
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Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:35:12 +0000
Two weeks ago, the news was filled with reports that Reactor 1 at the Three Mile Island nuclear generating station, which was shut down in 2019, will be refurbished and put back into service for another 20 years or more. Its sole customer will be Microsoft, which needs a lot … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 01:18:25 +0000
The surviving nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island will be restarted to make electricity to power Microsoft data centers.
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