Technical.ly

Here’s exactly where Amazon is planning its new data centers in Louisiana

Check the map for the locations and other stats for the new project, plus how it compares to Meta’s Hyperion and Hut 8’s ...
Datacenter Dynamics

Meta purchases additional 1,400 acres for Hyperion mega-data center expansion

Meta has acquired additional land as part of its plans to build a 2GW data center campus in Louisiana. The company announced plans to build a four million sq ft (372,000 sqm) facility known as ...

Meta’s data center ownership transfer doesn’t concern Louisiana power regulators

State utility regulators rejected a request this week to investigate whether Meta’s decision to place its data center in Northeast Louisiana under new ownership could leave Entergy Louisiana ...
Electrek

Google secures 1 GW solar deal as Texas data‑center load surges

TotalEnergies just landed a massive solar deal to power Google’s expanding Texas data centers. The company signed two long‑term power purchase agreements (PPA) totaling 1 gigawatt (GW) of capacity, or ...
Houston Public Media

ERCOT to update planning process for connecting data centers, other large loads to Texas power grid

The control room at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas on May 15, 2018. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, is changing the way it evaluates its transmission capacity to ...
CNBC

Meta expands Nvidia deal to use millions of AI chips in data center build-out, including standalone CPUs

Meta struck a massive chip deal with Nvidia that includes new standalone CPUs and next-generation GPUs and Vera Rubin rack-scale systems. The social media giant will also use Nvidia for networking ...
POWER Magazine

Shared Power: Building Data Centers That Serve Everyone

The unprecedented revolution in digital infrastructure, driven by the explosion in artificial intelligence (AI) services and cloud computing, is fueling an economic boom so large it drove 92% of U.S.
Wall Street Journal

Meta Auditor EY Raised Red Flag on Data-Center Accounting

Meta Platforms’ latest annual report contained an unusual, cautionary note for investors. The tech giant’s auditor, Ernst & Young, raised a red flag over the financial engineering Meta used to keep a ...
Yahoo

Data centers and other new large loads are driving sharp increases in Idaho farmers’ electric bills

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pivoting irrigation system waters a crop of barley on a farm located near Arco, Idaho, during a late summer day. Idaho is a top ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

Marathon: Data Reconstruction quest walkthrough

Follow this Marathon quest walkthrough to help you complete every step of the Data Reconstruction Priority Contract for ...
Idaho State Journal

Opinion: Data centers and other new large loads are driving sharp increases in farmers’ electric bills

In the past five years, irrigators have been hit with unprecedented rate hikes, the combined effects of which are staggering. This year, it will cost 45% more for my family to irrigate our crops than ...