A hot potato: It takes a massive amount of energy to power data centers, which is why Microsoft wants to tap the shuttered nuclear power plant on Three Mile Island for its AI ambitions.

based data center, along with 40 megawatts for Microsoft in its Ashburn, Va.-based center. There was a surge in data center leasing activity during the second quarter of 2020 from hyperscale ...

Microsoft recently pulled its underwater data center from the seabed floor, discovering that the 864 servers inside were eight times more reliable than those on land. After two years of being ...

Data centers are a critical, but often power-hungry, part of the enterprise. But, why exactly do data centers require so much energy? And how can businesses address emissions concerns as well as ...

Microsoft no longer has any active underwater data centers. The company experimented with underwater data centers as part of its Project Natick. Underwater data centers saw one-eighth of the ...

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Microsoft’s decision was animated, as the Journal reported, by the “gargantuan amount of power needed for data centers for AI.” During the nuclear industry’s long winter following the 1979 ...

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