data center

The Fight Over Data Centers Is a Fight Over Who Owns the Compute

The A.I. boom has concentrated compute in enormous data centers, but Product Science’s Anastasia Matveeva argues that advances in distributed training can challenge the assumption that serious A.I. workloads must live in hyperscale campuses.

By Anastasia Matveeva

As Data Center Opposition Grows, America Needs a Better Blueprint

The IDCA’s Mehdi Paryavi examines the growing tension between America’s demand for A.I. infrastructure and communities’ resistance to new data centers. The answer, Paryavi argues, is a more deliberate model that considers power, environmental constraints and community needs from the start.

By Mehdi Paryavi

Inside DataBank’s Third Wave: Kevin Ooley on Water, Power and What Happens After the A.I. Gold Rush

As DataBank's Kevin Ooley prepares to take over as CEO on January 1, he's inherited a business that's grown from $25 million in EBITDA to a $1 billion run rate in under a decade—and a public increasingly suspicious of what that growth costs. In a wide-ranging conversation, Ooley pushes back on water-use assumptions, walks through why the company capped its exposure to A.I. neocloud tenants in 2023, and admits he wishes he'd built bigger five years ago.

By Merin Curotto

At Christie’s Art+Tech Summit 2026, the State of A.I., New Wealth and the Art Market’s Next Chapter

By Elisa Carollo

Are Companies’ A.I. Ambitions on a Collision Course With Their Sustainability Goals?

By Seb Kirk

How Europe Can Build Without Breaking Its Cities

By Zoey Tsopela

Edge A.I. Infrastructure and the Limits of Hyperscale Thinking

By Neel Khokhani

Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston on Putting the First A.I. Data Center in Space

By Tom Samiljan

Matt Garman, the Low-Profile Engineer Driving Amazon’s A.I. Infrastructure Push

By Victor Dey

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch’s $1.4B Data Center Push Powers Europe’s A.I. Autonomy

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

The Nordic Blueprint for Building A.I. Infrastructure at Scale

By Anders Fryxell

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Launches Satellite Program as Space Data Centers Pick Up Steam

By Colette Holcomb

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