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Powering Data in the Age of AI: Part 2 – Nuclear, Fusion, and the Race for Compute Sovereignty

AI is often about scale, but what “scale” means is beginning to shift. For years, that meant throwing more GPUs at the problem, adding storage and shoving through bigger datasets. Which none of that does you any good Read more…

Powering Data in the Age of AI: Part 1 – Energy as the Ultimate Bottleneck

The past few years have seen AI expand faster than any technology in modern memory. Training runs that once operated quietly inside university labs now span massive facilities packed with high-performance computers, tapp Read more…

OpenAI Aims to Dominate the AI Grid With Five New Data Centers

The center of gravity in high performance computing continues to shift, with power emerging as the defining constraint for growth and scale. Training and deploying frontier AI models now demand physical infrastructure at Read more…

McKinsey Dishes the Goods on Latest Tech Trends

What frontier technologies should businesses look to for competitive advantage in 2025? One place to look is the management and consulting firm McKinsey & Company, which recently published its fifth annual “Technol Read more…

Utilities Sitting on Energy Data Goldmine

Billions of dollars have been invested over the last decade or so in smart meters intended to reduce energy usage and achieve savings. A new study finds that utilities have largely failed to tap data that might yield tho Read more…

Nokia Expands IoT Portfolio with SpaceTime Deal

Nokia, the Finnish mobile phone pioneer, is expanding its Internet of Things portfolio through the acquisition of SpaceTime Insight, a specialist in machine learning analytics and industrial IoT applications. Nokia (N Read more…

Hoover Dam Gets a Data Upgrade

As water supplies decline in seemingly direct proportion to the amount of data that can be used to conserve it and other precious resources, the operators of the iconic Hoover Dam will employ operational analytics to hel Read more…

Bit Stew, Energy Advisor Partner on Industrial IoT

Consulting firm Blackstone Technology Group, which focuses heavily on the energy sector, is partnering with "software-defined operations" specialist Bit Stew Systems in a bid to extend big data capabilities into global e Read more…

Huawei, CCTV Partner to Dev on High Density ‘Big Data’ Storage

Chinese company, Huawei Technologies, will not be sitting on the sidelines as the world rolls out solutions aimed at supporting the big data technology trend. According to a report this morning, the company is partnering on a media storage device with energy efficiency aims that may turn heads. Read more…

7 Big Winners in the U.S. Big Data Drive

Last week the U.S. announced a formalized approach to big data through its newly-minted Big Data Initiative. Under the new program, a number of unique projects that focus on data management, collaboration, analytics, visualization and more have received the breath of life. We've narrowed down seven out of the dozens that.... Read more…

Space-Time Aims to Make the Grid Smarter

No, this is not about wormholes or warping the time-space continuum--rather, this week we're highlighting a company that has a set of technologies aimed at harnessing big utilities data to reshape the way we think about the energy grid... Read more…

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