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Over the last couple of months, the AI industry’s obsession with building out costly data centers has sent the price of RAM skyrocketing, turning a simple computer upgrade into a costly investment.

Is the data center building boom driven by competitive signaling or real demand? If adoption falls short, today’s boom will bring tomorrow’s bust. It begins quietly, as many stories do, in a small ...

A survey from Politico and Public First released Tuesday found that nearly half of respondents believe the increase in data centers will be a campaign issue in their area in the next five years. The ...

President Trump sought to mollify a growing public backlash against AI data centers Tuesday by proposing to require that companies build their own power plants. It’s a good idea that could help ...

Shares of Caterpillar, the maker of mining and construction machinery, are up more than 30% since year-end, making it the biggest contributor to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. WSJ’s Jonathan Weil ...

Amazon plans to invest $12 billion in artificial intelligence data centers in Louisiana. The company's AI spending is expected to balloon to $200 billion this year, more than any of the other ...

Elon Musk's plan to launch millions of AI satellites could be disastrous for the planet. (Lily Padula for Engadget) At the start of the month, Elon Musk announced that two of his companies — SpaceX ...

Port Washington, Wisconsin, is the site of a new $15 billion artificial intelligence data center. Mayor Ted Neitzke IV faces a recall election from residents who oppose the project. The mayor argues ...

The currently-defunct Blue Valley Power Plant in Independence will reopen and undergo major expansion as an AI data center. Dominick Williams Dominick Williams dowilliams@kcstar.com In April 2015, to ...

Power, rather than compute, is fast becoming the limiting factor in scaling AI data centers. That shift has prompted Peak XV Partners to back C2i Semiconductors, an Indian startup building ...

The Journal Sentinel asked readers to send us their questions about Wisconsin data centers. More than 300 responded. We will be posting the answers to those questions here over the next weeks as more ...