Residential electricity bills jumped 6% nationwide in August compared to last year, but states with heavy data center concentration saw much higher increases. Virginia, Illinois, and Ohio experienced price surges between 12-16% as AI data centers consume massive power equivalent to entire cities.
Applied Digital is expanding its partnership with ABB to power a new 300MW AI data center campus in North Dakota. The Polaris Forge 2 facility will use ABB’s HiPerGuard UPS systems and is scheduled to come online in phases between 2026 and 2027. This marks the company’s second major AI campus projec
DataVita has filed plans to develop a new three-story data center facility on 1.8 hectares in Chapelhall, North Lanarkshire. This comes as Scotland sees multiple gigawatt-scale data center proposals after historically minimal market development despite abundant renewable power.
Tech giants are racing to build energy-intensive AI infrastructure despite environmental and economic concerns. New data centers in Texas, New York, and Georgia will require enormous power resources. The projects highlight the growing tension between AI advancement and practical limitations.
Google has launched Private AI Compute, its answer to concerns about AI data privacy. The system uses secure enclaves and hardened TPUs to isolate sensitive data. But security researchers point out vulnerabilities in the underlying technology.
Data centers have surpassed oil exploration as the world’s biggest infrastructure investment. The International Energy Agency projects $580 billion will flow into data centers this year, while AI’s electricity consumption is set to quintuple by 2030. This shift highlights how digital infrastructure
Slack suffered a significant outage on Monday, November 10, with thousands of users reporting connection problems. The platform acknowledged investigating a “new incident” as workplaces relying on the service faced communication disruptions.
Google is expanding emoji reactions in Meet to include the full library, giving users more ways to express themselves during video calls. The feature comes with several limitations and will roll out gradually through December.
Smartsheet is dramatically expanding its channel partner program with new incentives, global systems integrator tracks, and AWS collaboration. The move comes after the company’s $8.4 billion acquisition by private equity firms Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company has committed to spending $1.4 trillion on data centers over eight years while denying any government bailout requests. The company expects $20 billion in annual revenue this year and may launch its own AI cloud service, potentially competing with current partn
