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China Tightens Control Over AI Data Centers

By Qianer Liu · May 15, 2025 6:00am PDT
Chinese officials in the past two months told some of the country’s top technology companies that the government will take a more active role in overseeing their data centers for artificial intelligence and the specialized chips for developing the technology, according to two people involved in the conversations. The Chinese government wants... Chinese officials in the past two months told some of the country’s top technology companies that...
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Why an AI Data Center on the Prairie Is Sitting Empty

By Anissa Gardizy · May 10, 2025 10:00am PDT · 3 comments
For a town with a population of just over 1,000, a Bible college and a quaint main street, there’s an unusual amount of bustle in Ellendale, N.D. A housing project with 20 homes is going up, along with a 38-unit apartment complex. Even a new pickleball court just opened. All of the developments are meant to support an anticipated influx of... For a town with a population of just over 1,000, a Bible college and a quaint main street, there’...
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Snowflake, Databricks Discuss AI Data Security Deals With Google, Anthropic

By Kevin McLaughlin · Mar 11, 2025 8:00am PDT
After Sridhar Ramaswamy became CEO of database provider Snowflake a year ago, customers such as banks and healthcare firms said they might move their business elsewhere because they felt they couldn’t safely access artificial intelligence from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google through Snowflake’s core product. Some customers considered switching to... After Sridhar Ramaswamy became CEO of database provider Snowflake a year ago, customers such as...
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Meta Discusses AI Data Center Project That Could Cost $200 Billion
By Anissa Gardizy · Feb 25, 2025 4:46pm PST · 4 comments
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Meta Discusses AI Data Center Project That Could Cost $200 Billion

By Anissa Gardizy · Feb 25, 2025 4:46pm PST · 4 comments
Meta Platforms is in talks to build a new data center campus for its artificial intelligence endeavors that would dwarf anything the company has done to date and would be among the biggest of its kind, according to two people who have spoken to Meta executives about it. Based on the number of chips and the amount of power the company is... Meta Platforms is in talks to build a new data center campus for its artificial intelligence...
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Pro Weekly: Expanding Our AI Data Center Database

By Akash Pasricha and Anissa Gardizy · Sep 6, 2024 8:00am PDT
Earlier this week, we published our AI Data Center Database, detailing 17 U.S. data centers operating or planned by major tech companies in the fevered race to pursue advances in artificial intelligence. The scale of these facilities is impressive: Some will contain as many as 100,000 of the most advanced semiconductors, sprawl across... Earlier this week, we published our AI Data Center Database, detailing 17 U.S. data centers...
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Introducing the AI Data Center Database

By Anissa Gardizy · Sep 3, 2024 6:00am PDT · 3 comments
The biggest developers of artificial intelligence closely guard their state-of-the-art technology, but they’re arguably even more secretive about the specialized data centers needed to develop it. The Information is lifting the veil on existing and planned AI data centers, sometimes known as supercomputers or AI chip clusters, in a... The biggest developers of artificial intelligence closely guard their state-of-the-art...
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AI Data Center Startup Astera Labs Plans March IPO

By Cory Weinberg and Anissa Gardizy · Feb 1, 2024 11:46am PST · 1 comment
A little-known startup that sells crucial data center components to customers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft is aiming to become one of the first firms to go public off the back of the boom in generative artificial intelligence. Astera Labs, backed by Sutter Hill Ventures and Intel, has been meeting with prospective investors ahead of a... A little-known startup that sells crucial data center components to customers like Amazon Web...