While training has been the focus, inference is where AI's value is realized. Training clusters need large amounts of power. Optimized inference workloads that run over and over again on new data, on the other hand, should ideally use as few IT resources and power as possible.
In addition to Oracle and OpenAI's Stargate initiative, Amazon, Meta, Google and other tech giants are building facilities across the country this year.
News about large data centers coming to Ohio and the Columbus area seems to never stop, but how many data centers do we have compared to other states?
The reason why these stocks are being beaten down is that the DeepSeek news is causing investors to question how much money is being invested in AI hardware and data centers.
Amazon bought hundreds of acres of land in Ohio to build a massive data center. Are server farms and data centers different? Let's take a look.
To bring Meta to Louisiana, officials rewrote laws and pushed through big tax breaks in record time. The inside story, from the people who made it happen.
Shares of U.S. power, utility and natural gas companies sold off on Monday in some of the biggest recorded one-day drops, as new AI technology from Chinese start-up DeepSeek cast doubt on a projected surge in U.
Pasewalk is in the north of Germany, around 77 miles (124km) north of Berlin. Berlin is a secondary data center market in Germany, with the primary market located in Frankfurt. According to DataCenterMap, Berlin is home to 35 data centers. Operators include PentaInfra, NTT, nLighten, AtlasEdge, and Maincubes, among others.
Stargate's first data center campus, located in Abilene, will be about 875 acres, but only says it will create at least 57 jobs.
New data centers built in Georgia will have to pay more for electricity from Georgia Power under a change designed to protect residents and businesses from higher energy bills. But consumer advocates still have concerns about the booming business.
US data centers will need 55 gigawatts of new power capacity within the next five years, according to a report released this week by Bloom Energy. The report, based on a survey of 100 data center leaders, also shows that 30% of all sites will be using onsite power by 2030.
Talen Energy is asking a U.S. appeals court to weigh in on a decision by federal regulators last year to reject a power agreement for an Amazon data center connected directly to Talen's Pennsylvania nuclear plant,