Nvidia's grand plan for speeding up datacenter deployments: AI trailer parks
GPUzilla boasts modular bit barns could speed up deployments from six months to just two weeks
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RSSEuropean datacenter boom threatens higher energy bills unless governments intervene
Moody's forecasts server farms could consume 17% of Dutch electricity and 30% of Ireland's by 2035
Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter
Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk
America is planning more AI datacenters than its chip supply can fill
Satellite imagery shows construction accelerating, but advanced packaging could cap 2027 deployment in the low 20s of gigawatts
Schneider gives datacenter switchgear the software-defined treatment
Equinix pilot promises faster deployment and over-the-air upgrades without downtime, provided the code behaves itself
UK wants more homes heated by waste heat from datacenters
Millions for building and improving bitbarn driven heat networks - including hot water pushed through tunnel under the Thames
The more Americans hear about datacenters, the less they like them
Pew finds growing concern over their effects on energy bills, the environment, and nearby communities
EU datacenter green scorecard finally escapes Brussels
Long-delayed sustainability labels land as Commission eyes minimum efficiency standards
London neocloud Nscale takes its $1B loss to Wall Street
Rent-a-GPU firm reportedly seeks a valuation of up to $35B in New York IPO
AI can't outprompt a shortage of power, water, and land
Forrester predicts operators will face tariffs, grid commitments, and tougher community scrutiny
Schneider says hotter coolant can make AI datacenters less thirsty
Modeling suggests liquid-cooled designs can halve water consumption, though the company has skin in the game
America is building datacenters faster than the grid can power them
Meeting expected energy consumption through 2030 will require $110 billion in new generation resources
Datacenter developers want your backyard. FAS says negotiate harder
Tax breaks, water, noise, decommissioning - report tells local officials what to nail down before signing
Nscale swallows lion's share of UK datacenter investment
Tracxn credits one AI infrastructure outfit with $3.7B of sector's $5.7B haul
AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets
AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk
Green Party wants to slam the brakes on UK datacenter construction until water and energy use are sorted
Tree huggers aim to end blanket critical infrastructure status for bit barns and ensure environmental standards are met
EPA to drop requirement for public notice of polluting datacenters
State and local regulators would decide whether the public gets a say on minor-source permits
US datacenters tripled their water footprint in 10 years
... and those are figures from the start of the AI boom. It can only be worse now. Silo-ed reporting isn't helping
Scotland's AI Growth Zone gets a wee £300M power-up
DataVita secures funding to expand datacenter capacity, while Dell brings some desks
As datacenters expand, so does public opposition to them
Bans on new server farm projects spread across the US, while plans meet with protests in the UK
Samsung and Mousterian move ahead with floating datacenter for Texas
But bobbing bit barn may be becalmed by state governor's moratorium on connecting to the grid
Cisco 'retires' its Azure Local offering rather than catch up to Microsoft’s changed hardware requirements
Redmond now allows only locked-down rigs with joint software and hardware support for its on-prem hyperconverged cloud and Switchzilla won't go there
Hyperscale, hypersensitive: US teacher cuffed for applauding datacenter critics
Public meeting over proposed AI bit barn ended with zoning approval, a physics teacher arrested, and fresh questions over whether clapping now counts as disorderly conduct
Trump expands voluntary pledge to keep datacenter costs off household power bills
Pinkie promise gains 200-plus new participants and precisely zero enforcement
Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter
The Reg was there as locals aired grievances over poor communication, noise, and light pollution at Waltham Cross facility
Britain isn't considering datacenters' thirst for water in its 'AI superpower' ambitions
Grand compute push could end up as dry as England's reservoirs unless ministers act fast
AWS sustainability claims don't hold water, lawsuit alleges
Ex-staffer accuses Amazon's Virginia datacenters of quietly guzzling H20 all year round, despite 'water positive' PR push
Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity
Consumption rose another 10% while restrictions on most new grid connections remained around Dublin
Orbital datacenter gold rush needs an environmental review, FCC told
Green groups want licenses frozen before a million satellites litter the exosphere
AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one year
Firm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone
Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year
Police wanted to call off a grudge game until tech support electrified fevered fans
UK guts planning red tape so datacenters can bypass the neighbors faster
Overhaul of process could give NIMBYs one year less to complain
Samsung floats 2028 launch for seaborne datacenter
Korean megacorp sets itself a target date to commercialize watery server farm concept