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Stop keeping all your backups online—here's why offline-by-default storage actually works

The safest backup machine is the one that’s turned off ...

The database that refused to die: How Postgres survived its own creators

Stonebraker essentially abandoned Postgres in the mid-1990s. But instead of fading into obscurity, the codebase was salvaged ...
The Texas Tribune

An unprecedented data center boom means new challenges for Texas. Find out what’s planned near you.

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The Washington Post

Voters back first-in-nation permanent data center ban in city near L.A.

As a backlash against data centers spreads across the nation, sparked by worries the giant computing warehouses will raise energy bills and increase pollution, voters in one California city have a ...
Newsweek

Thousands Back Zoo’s Petition to Block AI Data Center—’Irreversible Damage’

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Thousands of people have rallied behind a petition to block ...
The Hill

O’Leary shrinking Utah data center after backlash

Business mogul Kevin O’Leary said late Wednesday he is willing to scale back his controversial 40,000-acre artificial intelligence data center campus in Utah after mounting backlash over the ...
CNBC

Vibe-coding phenomenon lifts AI startup Supabase to $10.5 billion valuation

Database startup Supabase announced a $500 million funding round that values the company at $10.5 billion, including the fresh capital. Supabase provides back-end technology for vibe coders. "I built ...
Bloomberg L.P.

The Race to Rethink Data Centers for AI’s Power Surge

Artificial intelligence data centers are on the verge of reaching their limits. To meet ballooning demand, chipmakers like Nvidia Corp. are churning out ever more powerful chips, requiring a new ...
Forbes

AI And Bad Data: Why Businesses Need To Go Back To Basics

AI is the new competitive edge for marketing and communications leaders, and the race is on to implement the technology in the savviest, most effective way possible. Thanks to generative and agentic ...
POWER Magazine

From Backup to Prime Power: How AI Data Centers Are Bypassing the Grid

Data centers have traditionally depended on uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems and backup generators to keep them online during a power cut, grid event, or natural disaster. But the critical ...
Newsweek

How Data Centers Are Set To Impact The Value of Your Home

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. At the edge of towns and farmland across the U.S., windowless buildings ...
USA Today

Canvas, digital platform used by universities, back up after ransom hack

Canvas, a learning management platform, is back online after being down for hours on May 7 following a cyberattack. Hacking group ShinyHunters took responsibility for the breach at Instructure, and ...