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Performance isn't a luxury
Why performance matters When we talk about performance in software, most people think of speed — how fast an API responds, how quickly a page loads, how many r...
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🧠 I No Longer See Software as “Just Software”
For a long time, I thought software engineering was only about features, performance, and shipping products. Today, I realize it’s much deeper than that. Changi...
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The Great Big Power Play
US support for nuclear energy is soaring. Meanwhile, coal plants are on their way out and electricity-sucking data centers are meeting huge pushback. Welcome to...
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Billion-Dollar Data Centers Are Taking Over the World
The battle for AI dominance has left a large footprint—and it’s only getting bigger and more expensive....
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Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cryptocurrency mining center
Article URL: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/satellites-reveal-heat-leaking-from-largest-us-cryptocurrency-mining-center Comments URL: https:...
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Communities are rising up against data centers — and winning
If there's one thing Republicans and Democrats came together on in 2025 - at least at the local level - it was to stop big, energy-hungry data center projects....
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Democratic lawmakers are investigating data centers’ impact on electricity costs
A Meta data center in Ashburn, Virginia. | Photo: Getty Images Sens. Elizabeth Warren D-MA, Chris Van Hollen D-MD, and Richard Blumenthal D-CT fired off a lette...
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Racks of AI chips are too damn heavy
An aerial view of a 33 megawatt data center LOWER L with closed-loop cooling system, amid warehouses on October 20, 2025 in Vernon, California. | Image: Mario T...
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Why copper markets are feeling the pinch due to aggressive AI data center expansion — expansive buildout to demand 1.1 million tonnes of copper annually by 2030, close to 3% of global demand
Data center demand is skyrocketing as the generative AI revolution continues at pace. The racks of servers already use around 1.5% of global electricity, but by...