Meta is expanding what was already planned to become its largest AI data center, a Louisiana campus that the tech giant says has generated “life-changing returns” for local teachers and businesses. The company behind Facebook and Instagram said in a blog post Monday that the Richland Parish data center, known as Hyperion, will now grow
Ashburn, Virginia, is in the heart of America’s “data center alley.” Over the Fourth of July weekend, diesel generators at a Digital Realty data center turned on as temperatures rose. Dark smoke hung over ACC9, one of dozens of data centers clustered in Ashburn and nearby cities, according to July 3 video and photos seen
Meta will bring a data center to Canada. The company announced Wednesday that it has broken ground on a new artificial intelligence computing center in Sturgeon County, Alberta, outside of Edmonton. The facility represents an investment of more than 13 billion Canadian dollars, or approximately $9 billion, and is planned as a 1-gigawatt data center,
Kentucky will become home to a massive new AI data center that will power Anthropic’s AI models under a deal expected to generate nearly $20 billion in revenue. TeraWulf, a Bitcoin mining company turned AI data center developer, announced Monday that Anthropic signed a 20-year lease for a “purpose-built AI infrastructure campus” on a former
A decommissioned nuclear silo near Denver, Colorado, that could once launch three 4.5-megaton nuclear missiles at a moment’s notice is now an entrepreneur’s pet project. Nik Halik, an Australian venture capitalist, purchased the decommissioned Cold War-era nuclear missile silo from the US government in 2021 for more than $10 million. For the past five years,