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Amazon sold 60% fewer CPUs than a year ago, pointing to a stalled PC refresh cycle (techspot.com)

2026-02-14 | get CPU → | tags: according figures, ai data, amazon

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Anthropic promises to pay for electricity price increases due to it's AI data centers — firm to pay 100% of its grid infrastructure costs, produce new power sources as sector predicted to hit 50 GW in coming years (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-12 | by Jowi Morales | get Data Centers → | tags: data centers, electricity, grid

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China's top chipmaker warns that rushed AI data center capacity could remain idle — SMIC chief says utilizing ballooning capacity 'has not been fully thought through' (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-11 | by Anton Shilov | get Smartphone → | tags: centers, china, data centers

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Microsoft turns to superconductors for distributing power to its AI data centers — zero-resistance cables could reduce power losses and produce zero heat (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-11 | by Jowi Morales | get Superconductors → | tags: centers, data centers, electricity

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John Carmack muses using a long fiber line as an L2 cache for streaming AI data — programmer imagines fiber as alternative to DRAM (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-09 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Fiber Optic → | tags: carmack, fiber, tom hardware

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John Carmack muses using a long fiber line as as an L2 cache for streaming AI data — programmer imagines fiber as alternative to DRAM (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-09 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Fiber Optic → | tags: carmack, fiber, tom hardware

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Intel has a new chief architect working on GPUs for AI data centers (techspot.com)

2026-02-05 | get Graphics Processing Units → | tags: ai summit, announced, announced company

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HetCCL makes clustered Nvidia and AMD AI accelerators play nice with each other via RDMA — vendor-agnostic collective communications library removes an obstacle to heterogeneous AI data centers (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-04 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Nvidia Accelerator → | tags: gpus, hetccl, networking

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Intel is co-developing new Z-Angle Memory to compete with HBM used in AI data centers — vertically-stacked memory touts 2 to 3x more capacity, greater bandwidth, and half the power consumption (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-03 | by Jon Martindale | get Memory → | tags: bandwidth, intel, memory

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SanDisk stock price jumps by 1,500% in almost a year — growth fueled by strong demand from AI data centers and enterprise clients, consumer revenue also up by 52% (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-31 | by Jowi Morales | get CloudDrive → | tags: chips, increase, memory

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Losing Your AI Data Could Be Catastrophic. Use This Simple Guide to Start Protecting It Today. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-30 | by Chongwei Chen | get Backup → | tags: ai data, backup, backups

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AI data labeler Handshake buys Cleanlab, an acquisition target of multiple others (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-28 | by Marina Temkin | get Label maker → | tags: cleanlab, data labeling, handshake

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The winter storm tested power grids straining to accommodate AI data centers (theverge.com)

2026-01-27 | by Justine Calma | get Data Center → | tags: electricity, energy, power

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SoftBank pauses $50bn AI data center operator acquisition talks — move plunges Stargate data center plans into uncertainty as regulatory roadblocks pose significant challenge (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-27 | by Luke James | get Stargate → | tags: acquisition, billion, control

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Meta inks deal to pay Corning up to $6 billion for fiber-optic cables in AI data centers (cnbc.com)

2026-01-27 | by Katie Tarasov | get Fiber-optic cables → | tags: corning, fiber, meta

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This university campus is heated by an AI data center. Your home could be next (cnbc.com)

2026-01-27 | by April Roach Tasmin Lockwood | get Data Center → | tags: centers, data centers, energy

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This university campus is heated by an AI data centre. Your home could be next (cnbc.com)

2026-01-27 | by April Roach Tasmin Lockwood | get Data Centre → | tags: centers, data centers, energy

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CoreWeave stock jumps 6% as Nvidia invests $2 billion to expand AI data center capacity (cnbc.com)

2026-01-26 | by Ashley Capoot | get Data Center → | tags: billion, cnbc, coreweave

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CoreWeave stock jumps 12% as Nvidia invests $2 billion to expand AI data center capacity (cnbc.com)

2026-01-26 | by Ashley Capoot | get Data Center → | tags: billion, cnbc, coreweave

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CoreWeave stock jumps 8% as Nvidia invests $2 billion to expand AI data center capacity (cnbc.com)

2026-01-26 | by Ashley Capoot | get CoreWeave → | tags: billion, cnbc, coreweave

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Ambitious 170 km long Saudi megacity 'The Line' has scope slashed and may be repurposed as AI data center hub — futuristic desert city was set to house 9 million people, and showcased polarizing sci-fi design (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-26 | by Stephen Warwick | get Smart City → | tags: arabia, data centers, line

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Ambitious 170 km long Saudimegacity 'The Line' has scope slashed and may be repurposed as AI data center hub — futuristic desert city was set to house 9 million people, and showcased polarizing sci-fi design (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-26 | by Stephen Warwick | get Neural Network → | tags: arabia, data centers, line

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Intel says it's selling every chip it can produce, so it's feeding AI servers first (techspot.com)

2026-01-24 | get Microprocessors → | tags: ai data, billion, billion revenue

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New AI data center buildout being done in secret location to avoid backlash from local residents — ex-crypto mining company doesn’t want publicity for its latest project (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-24 | by Jowi Morales | get Cloud → | tags: applied, attention, public

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Intel Struggles To Meet AI Data Center Demand (slashdot.org)

2026-01-23 | get Cloud Server → | tags: billion, bu tan, chip

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OpenAI commits to 'paying our own way' so that Stargate AI data centers don't increase energy bills — will fund grid upgrades and even flexible loads to reduce stress on energy supply (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-21 | by Stephen Warwick | get Stargate → | tags: energy, local, openai

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The memory shortage is driving up prices for SSDs, GPUs, and hard drives – even phone makers are cutting projections (techspot.com)

2026-01-19 | get Memory → | tags: ai data, centers, centers ongoing

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AI Data Centers Pushing Electric Grid Into Meltdown (futurism.com)

2026-01-16 | by Sharon Adarlo | get Data Center → | tags: centers, data centers, demand

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Cloudflare acquires AI data marketplace Human Native (cnbc.com)

2026-01-15 | by Davis Giangiulio | get Cloudflare Human Native → | tags: acquisition, ai developers, cloudflare

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Laptop makers have about a year of memory stock to ride out the RAM crunch, Intel says (techspot.com)

2026-01-15 | get RAM → | tags: according intel, ai data, analysts