Texas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are five times higher than peak record demand — 474 gigawatts of power requests are no

TechieTwo I don’t feel it is unreasonable for data centers to be required to produce their own electricity instead of burdening the utility companies and residents. If they can’t produce their your own electricity then t…

Nashville attempts to block controversial data center near zoo with eminent domain — city could force developer to sell the land for public use, rather than $70

The city council vote would allow the local government to negotiate with DC Blox for the acquisition of the property. However, this does not automatically mean that Nashville would automatically have the right to own the…

Rogue OpenAI models behind ‘unprecedented cybersecurity incident’ teamed up to break out of their testing environment — multiple agents left each other messages

Recent high-profile events such as this one highlight another layer of the problem, namely, that rogue AI models can sometimes perform alarming feats of hacking — like breaking out of a testing environment — with no huma…

Texas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are five times higher than peak record demand — 474 gigawatts of power requests are no

TechieTwo I don’t feel it is unreasonable for data centers to be required to produce their own electricity instead of burdening the utility companies and residents. If they can’t produce their your own electricity then t…

Apple revealed the first Mac Pro 20 years ago today — its Intel Xeon-powered flagship desktop took the reins from the Power Mac G5

Apple’s last Mac Pro was a 2023 model with the M2 Ultra chip. Then, in March this year, Apple confirmed there would be no future revisions of this desktop workstation flagship. The line had been effectively replaced by t…

Kioxia and Sandisk demonstrate the world’s highest-density 3D NAND flash — 332 active layers and up to 4,800 MT/s interface

samopa My worry is reliability. I had more than a handful of SanDisk SDXC cards with capacities between 64 GB and 256 GB that died in less than a year. None of that happened with my (also a handful of) Samsung SDXC cards…