A fascinating image has been circulating online recently, claiming that China has built a massive data center under th ...
A great deal has been made of late in news coverage and the court of public opinion regarding data centers—popularly ...
The artificial intelligence boom is driving unprecedented demand for data centers, raising concerns about their growing energy consumption, water use and carbon footprint. These challenges are making ...
Panthalassa, backed by Peter Thiel and a flotilla of tech investors, sees data centers powered and cooled by the ocean as a cheaper alternative to the orbiting server farms Musk is pitching to SpaceX ...
At the start of the 2026 summer, a new data center was announced in China. It wasn’t built near a bustling city or on a computing campus stretching hundreds of acres. Rather, the data center was off ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Some developers are now exploring the ocean as a new location for AI infrastructure in ...