Virginia, Amazon announce $35 billion data center plan
Amazon Web Services plans to invest $35 billion in new data centers in Virginia under a deal with the state, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Friday.
Jan 21, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Computers that power self-driving cars could be a huge driver of global carbon emissions
In the future, the energy needed to run the powerful computers on board a global fleet of autonomous vehicles could generate as many greenhouse gas emissions as all the data centers in the world today.
Jan 12, 2023
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Oregon city drops fight to keep Google water use private
Residents of The Dalles, Oregon, are learning how much of their water Google's data centers have been using to cool the computers inside the cavernous buildings—information that previously was deemed a trade secret.
Dec 16, 2022
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Hardware
World-first online portal allows inside study of a data center
A successful collaboration between Umeå University and Ericsson Research in Lund has now resulted in an online portal that makes it possible to peek inside the processes in a data center, in real-time.
Dec 13, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers realize a high-speed uni-traveling-carrier photodiode
Photodiodes with high speed and efficiency are particularly advantageous to the exponential growth of data communication traffic. However, vertical detector design still faces difficulties in improving high responsivity while ...
Nov 28, 2022
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Hardware
Electronic/photonic chip sandwich pushes boundaries of computing and data transmission efficiency
Engineers at Caltech and the University of Southampton in England have collaboratively designed an electronics chip integrated with a photonics chip (which uses light to transfer data)—creating a cohesive final product ...
Nov 18, 2022
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Microsoft to invest at least $1 billion in North Carolina county
Microsoft is investing at least $1 billion in Catawba County by building four data centers there, local officials announced Wednesday.
Nov 10, 2022
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Alphabet cut off workers from pay transparency data, union says
Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company, illegally cut off contract workers' access to a spreadsheet about pay transparency, a union alleged in a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board.
Nov 4, 2022
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Engineering
New report advocates using waste heat from data centers in district heating
A new report from the Cool-Data project sheds light on the possibilities for utilizing flexibility and waste heat from data centers in Denmark. DTU's researchers answer five questions about how the energy can be utilized ...
Nov 4, 2022
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Telecom
Deep learning with light: Components of machine learning model encoded onto light waves
Ask a smart home device for the weather forecast, and it takes several seconds for the device to respond. One reason this latency occurs is because connected devices don't have enough memory or power to store and run the ...
Oct 20, 2022
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