Amazon says that it uses 2.5 billion gallons of water annually for data center cooling but compares it to the 3.3 trillion gallons of water used for watering lawns and gardens in the U.S. every year.

A team of researchers from UC San Diego found that 'old' smartphones from 2023 could be combined to build a server capable of running apps locally, instead of relying on cloud servers located on a distant site.

The Nashville Zoo is pushing back on a proposed data center build, which would place servers in proximity with animal habitats.

Astera Labs has shown off the Scorpio X-Series 320-lane PCIe switch that promises to enable vendor-agnostic scale-up capability for AI infrastructure and disaggregated data center infrastructure.

Supermicro demonstrates upcoming servers based on AMD’s EPYC ‘Venice’ CPUs, MI450 accelerators, and Nvidia’s Vera Rubin-based solutions.

NVIDIA's new server CPU doesn't win outright in most tests, but it's running very close to AMD's EPYC, which is incredible for a first-generation custom server core from NVIDIA.

Getting banned Hopper or Blackwell chips into mainland data centers just became exponentially more fraught as Taiwan begins to crack down on smugglers.

Amazon says that it will take months before it can return its Bahrain and UAE data center back to full operational status. In the meantime, the company suspends billing for affected customers while also recommending that they move to other Regions to restore service.

The residents of Archbald, Pennsylvania have started pushing back against the six planned data centers in the town, which will take up about 14% of its land area.

Governor Janet Mills vetoed a bill that would have enacted a moratorium on all data center projects because it would affect one site to be built on a former paper mill in Jay, Franklin County.

Cloud-native AI and data intensive workloads coming to IBM Z and LinuxONE systems as IBM wants to make its machines more relevant for today's workloads.

Offshore wind turbines could house up to a 12-megawatt data center, drawing power directly from the winds blowing on the sea while using the cold ocean water for cooling.

Microsoft wants to use superconducting cables to transport electricity with zero losses, allowing it to save space and build more data centers without putting more strain on the grid.

Windows Server 2025 gets native NVMe with massive I/O and CPU gains

This used Nvidia Grace Hopper system price seemed unbelievable. But it required a lot of cleaning and intricate work to get it running smoothly.

CME had to halt trading after the cooling system at the data center that primarily serves suffers from a massive failure.

Apple CEO Tim Cook took to X yesterday, October 23, to announce that Apple’s “American-made advanced servers” have begun shipping from a new Houston facility to Apple’s own data centers.

Microsoft is canceling its plans to build a data center near the Oak Creek Power Plant after the community rallied against its plans.

Built on Intel’s 18A node, the all-E-core Xeon packs 288 cores per socket and promises big efficiency gains.

China is building a centralized, state-run cloud platform to connect underused data centers nationwide and resell excess computing power.