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Electricity Prices are Going Up, and AI Is to Blame

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-12-13 09:25:59

Your electricity bill has likely gone up over the course of the past year. That’s because you’re effectively paying an AI tax. According to a report from Axios, the cost of electricity is climbing across the country, driven primarily by the increasing energy demands of massive data centers being built to train and run AI models. Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration showed the cost of 1 kilowatt-hour of electricity rose from 16.41 cents to 17.47 cents over the course of the past

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NixOS on a Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen9 AMD Laptop

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 18:35:04

I link to TUXEDO a lot in this blog post. These links are not affiliate links, and this post is not sponsored (duh). TUXEDO Computers is a laptop manufacturer based in Augsburg, Germany, who are special to Linux users because they’re one of the few manufacturers developing specifically for Linux. They ship with their own TUXEDO OS, which comes with KDE Plasma by default. For my new job, I actually wanted a Framework laptop with an AMD chip, but they were temporarily out of stock so I opted for

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Microsoft investigates outage affecting Microsoft 365 admin center

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-29 09:49:49

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing outage blocking Microsoft 365 administrators with business or enterprise subscriptions from accessing the admin center. While the company has yet to disclose which regions are currently affected by this ongoing service degradation issue, it's currently tracking it on its official service health status page to provide impacted organizations with access to up-to-date information. "Microsoft is investigating a potential issue that may be preventing administra

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Hubble Snaps Photos of Interstellar Invader

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-01 04:20:51

The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped some spooky looking photos of our solar system's newest interstellar invader on the run. The object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, was first spotted careening through the outer limits of the Sun's domain earlier this month, and appears to be a comet. Upon closer inspection, its speed was found to be so incredible that there could be no doubt of its extrasolar origins, making it only the third detected interstellar object in history. Tantalizingly, it's hurtling straig

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Nvidia addresses AI chip smuggling, says bootleg datacenters are a 'losing proposition'

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-01-01 23:50:01

Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks to members of the media in Beijing, China, on Wednesday, July 16, 2025. Nvidia said Thursday that datacenters built with smuggled chips are a "losing proposition" and that it does not support unauthorized products. The statement came in response to a Financial Times report that at least $1 billion worth of its artificial intelligence chips illegally entered China. "Trying to cobble together datacenters from smuggled products is a l

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Tram Trains

news.ycombinator.com Benedict Springbett 2026-01-04 12:37:12

We’re hiring someone in London to help grow Works in Progress's audience and sell Stripe Press books (and, soon, Works in Progress magazine subscriptions). If this could be you, please apply here! Many cities face the following problem. They have railway lines that go where people live. But these railway lines end at the edge of the city center, and don’t go out the other side. For cities with this problem, the solution is through running. Terminating a train and turning it around takes a lot

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OpenAI partners with Oracle to built out 4.5 gigawatts in data center capacity

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-07 14:34:23

OpenAI has struck a deal with Oracle to add an astounding 4.5 gigawatts of US data center capacity to power the massive workload required by its large language models. The companies haven't specified where these new centers will be built, but Bloomberg is reporting that Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin and Wyoming are all under consideration. The ChatGPT maker says this new capacity is a part of the Stargate Project , and that together with its one GW campus in Abilene, Texas, the company is projecti

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The Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter

news.ycombinator.com Ryan Donovan 2026-01-03 18:06:49

Since October 2010, all Stack Exchange sites have run on physical hardware in a datacenter in New York City (well, New Jersey). These have had a warm spot in our history and our hearts. When I first joined the company and worked out of the NYC office, I saw the original server mounted on a wall with a laudatory plaque like a beloved pet. Over the years, we’ve shared glamor shots of our server racks and info about updating them. For almost our entire 16-year existence, the SRE team has managed a

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X Data Center Fire in Oregon Started Inside Power Cabinet, Authorities Say

wired.com Paresh Dave 2026-01-08 10:01:20

A recent, hours-long fire at a data center used by Elon Musk’s X may have begun after an electrical or mechanical issue in a power system, according to an official fire investigation. WIRED was the first to report on the blaze, which occurred on May 22 in Hillsboro, Oregon. Data center giant Digital Realty operates the 13-acre site, and multiple people familiar with the matter previously told WIRED that the Musk-run social platform X has servers there. Data center fires are rare, with about tw

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AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-11 06:59:04

AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics, boosting the economy, and beginning to approach the railroad boom As ever, here is what's ahead: Updates on prior pieces My most recent Rough Notes essay A few things worth reading I previously wrote about the perils of building renovation as a Fed chair, especially given an administration bent on finding a reason to fire you "for cause." As anyone who has renovated anything larger than a dog house knows, no one thinks what you spent

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AI CapEx Is Eating the Economy

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-11 12:59:04

AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics, boosting the economy, and beginning to approach the railroad boom As ever, here is what's ahead: Updates on prior pieces My most recent Rough Notes essay A few things worth reading I previously wrote about the perils of building renovation as a Fed chair, especially given an administration bent on finding a reason to fire you "for cause." As anyone who has renovated anything larger than a dog house knows, no one thinks what you spent

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Data Centers Are 'AI Factories.' Google and Meta Are Spending Big Bucks to Build Them

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-19 14:19:20

Tech giants Google and Meta have a lot riding on the growth and success of AI, and to support those efforts, they're also committing significant sums of money to build the data centers they're going to need to run that power-hungry technology. On Tuesday, Google announced that it plans to invest $25 billion in data centers and other AI infrastructure tied to the PJM Interconnection, the biggest electric grid in the US. The PJM Interconnection reaches across 13 states in the eastern half of the

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Meta announces new data centers, gobble up millions of gallons of water per day

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-20 09:31:56

CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company plans on investing "hundreds of billions of dollars" to power AI. Meta is building several gigawatt-sized data centers to power AI, as reported by Bloomberg . CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company will spend "hundreds of billions of dollars" to accomplish this feat, with an aim of creating "superintelligence." The term typically refers to artificial general intelligence (AGI), which describes AI systems that boast human-level intelligence across multiple dom

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Coreweave stock pops after company announces $6 billion AI data center in Pennsylvania

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2026-01-21 03:56:06

CoreWeave Inc. signage in Times Square in New York, US, on Friday, May 9, 2025. Coreweave stock climbed more than 9% on Tuesday after the company announced a $6 billion artificial intelligence data center project in Pennsylvania. The commitment includes an initial 100 megawatt data center built in Lancaster, a city about 70 miles west of Philadelphia. The data center will be able to expand to 300 MW. "The demand for high-performance AI compute is relentless," said CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrat

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Meta is reportedly using actual tents to build data centers

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-01-21 23:25:13

In Brief Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are in a hurry to build their superintelligence tech. The company has been poaching AI researchers, while Zuckerberg announced on Monday that Meta is building a 5-gigawatt data center called Hyperion. The urgency is palpable. As SemiAnalysis reported last week and Business Insider noted, Meta is so eager to boost its computing power that it’s literally erecting tents for temporary data center capacity while its facilities are still under construction. The

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Meta announces huge new data centers, but they could gobble up millions of gallons of water per day

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-23 09:40:00

CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company plans on investing "hundreds of billions of dollars" to power AI. Meta is building several gigawatt-sized data centers to power AI, as reported by Bloomberg . CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company will spend "hundreds of billions of dollars" to accomplish this feat, with an aim of creating "superintelligence." The term typically refers to artificial general intelligence (AGI), which describes AI systems that boast human-level intelligence across multiple dom

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Meta Is Building Massive Gigawatt Data Centers as It Pours Billions Into AI

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2026-01-23 09:40:19

Meta’s AI spending spree continues. After reportedly offering tens (or in some cases, hundreds) of millions of dollars to lure away top researchers from competing artificial intelligence operations, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced via Threads that the company plans to build several multi-gigawatt superclusters to ramp up its compute power. Zuckerberg said the first of the superclusters, called Prometheus, will come online sometime in 2026, with “multiple more titan clusters” to follow. According

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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building a 5GW AI data center

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-01-23 14:16:52

Meta is currently building out a data center, called Hyperion, which the company expects to supply its new AI lab with five gigawatts (GW) of computational power, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Monday post on Threads. The announcement marks Meta’s latest move to get ahead of OpenAI and Google in the AI race. After previously poaching top talent to run Meta Superintelligence Lab, including former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and former Safe Superintelligence CEO Daniel Gross, Meta now seems to be t

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Woman Says Zuckerberg's AI Data Center Filled Her Tap Water With Sediment

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-25 08:05:38

"I'm afraid to drink the water." Tainted Water A retiree in rural Georgia has accused Meta's new AI data center, which is situated around 1,200 feet from her home, of polluting her water. As the BBC reports, the resident, Beverly Morris, believes the construction of the tech giant's data center disrupted her private water well, causing a buildup of sediment. "I'm afraid to drink the water, but I still cook with it, and brush my teeth with it," Morris told the broadcaster. "Am I worried about

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At Amazon's biggest data center, everything is supersized for AI

news.ycombinator.com Karen Weise 2026-01-26 04:03:11

A year ago, a 1,200-acre stretch of farmland outside New Carlisle, Ind., was an empty cornfield. Now, seven Amazon data centers rise up from the rich soil, each larger than a football stadium. Over the next several years, Amazon plans to build around 30 data centers at the site, packed with hundreds of thousands of specialized computer chips. With hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber connecting every chip and computer together, the entire complex will form one giant machine intended just for

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At Amazon's Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I

news.ycombinator.com Karen Weise 2026-01-27 04:03:11

A year ago, a 1,200-acre stretch of farmland outside New Carlisle, Ind., was an empty cornfield. Now, seven Amazon data centers rise up from the rich soil, each larger than a football stadium. Over the next several years, Amazon plans to build around 30 data centers at the site, packed with hundreds of thousands of specialized computer chips. With hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber connecting every chip and computer together, the entire complex will form one giant machine intended just for

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More Than 2,100 NASA Staff Are Getting Gutted

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-29 04:10:14

Elon Musk might have been deposed from DOGE, but the government cuts are still coming. As reported by Politico, some 2,145 high-level NASA employees are about to be launched out of the agency as efforts to cut US government spending continues. The employees represent those with G-13, G-14, and G-15 status — typically specialized or managerial roles which start around the six-figure salary range. The workers are part of a group of nearly 2,700 civilian employees who've agreed to leave NASA volu

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NASA will lose over 2,000 senior staff due to proposed Trump budget cuts

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-30 14:01:09

NASA is set to lose at least 2,145 senior staff members as part of the Trump administration's push for budget cuts, Politico reports. The brain drain could severely impact future research and missions, and is happening not long before the organization plans to send a new crew of astronauts to the Moon in 2026. Of the over 2,000 departing staff members, nearly all of them are in senior positions, requiring specialized skills or management experience. "Those leaving include 1,818 staff serving in

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macOS Tahoe has big Control Center upgrades, here’s everything new

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-31 04:03:29

macOS Tahoe brings a lot of exciting updates to the Mac, like a supercharged Spotlight, Liquid Glass design, and three brand new apps. One of my personal macOS Tahoe favorites: Control Center is getting a lot of great upgrades. Here’s what’s new. Control Center in macOS Tahoe takes inspiration from the iPhone Last year in iOS and iPadOS 18, Apple launched a brand new Control Center for iPhone and iPad. Control Center got more powerful and customizable than ever. And all throughout this past y

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CoreWeave acquires data center provider Core Scientific in $9B stock deal

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-02-05 23:37:09

In Brief CoreWeave announced Monday that it signed a $9 billion all-stock deal to acquire Core Scientific, a data center infrastructure provider. As a result of the deal, CoreWeave says it will gain access to more than a gigawatt of data center capacity — enough energy to power more than 850,000 homes — that it can rent out for AI training and inference workloads. Much like CoreWeave, Core Scientific previously offered Bitcoin mining services, but now its GPUs will run and train generative AI

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Nvidia challenger Groq expands with first European data center

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2026-02-07 11:59:22

Jonathan Ross, chief executive officer of Groq Inc., during the GenAI Summit in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, May 30, 2024. Artificial intelligence semiconductor startup Groq on Monday announced it has established its first data center in Europe as it steps up its international expansion. Groq, which is backed by investment arms of Samsung and Cisco , said the data center will be located in Helsinki, Finland and is in partnership with Equinix . Groq is looking to take advantage

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Ted Cruz’s Bid to Reclaim Space Shuttle Discovery Could Cost $400 Million

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2026-02-09 20:00:30

At a time when money is too tight for NASA’s science exploration endeavors, Texas senators are willing to pour millions into a risky process to relocate the Space Shuttle to Houston under the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill. President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill, which passed the Senate on Tuesday, includes a provision to move the Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum in Virginia to Space Center Houston. The Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act was added to t

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Samsung is cooking up a privacy and security powerhouse in One UI 8 (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-18 03:30:25

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung seems to be developing a new “Alert Center” in One UI 8 to notify users about sneaky apps, security risks, and aging account settings. Code strings describing “Alert Center” and its features were discovered in an internal One UI 8 build. It’s unclear when Samsung will launch the new security hub, but it should be available in your phone’s Settings when and if it goes live. Samsung seems to be going one step above Android’s built-in security and pr

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Texas politicians make headway in effort to wrench space shuttle from Smithsonian

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-19 04:16:14

A political effort to relocate the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Space Center Houston has been merged with the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill," a major economic and policy package now nearing a vote in the US Senate. The "Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act," first introduced by Texas Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn in April, has now been added to the Senate's version of the bill championed by President Donald Trump. While the latter legislation primarily focuses on tax cuts

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Data Centers, Temperature, and Power

news.ycombinator.com Stephanie Doyle 2026-02-16 11:42:10

It’s easy to open a data center, right? All you have to do is connect a bunch of hard drives to power and the internet, find a building, and you’re off to the races. Well, not exactly. Building and using one Storage Pod is quite a bit different than managing exabytes of data. As the world has grown more connected, the demand for data centers has grown—and then along comes artificial intelligence (AI), with processing and storage demands that amp up the need even more. That, of course, has real

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Electricity Prices are Going Up, and AI Is to Blame

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Microsoft investigates outage affecting Microsoft 365 admin center

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Coreweave stock pops after company announces $6 billion AI data center in Pennsylvania

Meta is reportedly using actual tents to build data centers

Meta announces huge new data centers, but they could gobble up millions of gallons of water per day

Meta Is Building Massive Gigawatt Data Centers as It Pours Billions Into AI

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building a 5GW AI data center

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At Amazon's biggest data center, everything is supersized for AI

At Amazon's Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I

More Than 2,100 NASA Staff Are Getting Gutted

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Data Centers, Temperature, and Power

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