data centers
Infrastructure & Cloud
Google’s 100-Hour Battery: Iron-Air Storage Rewrites Data Center Energy Rules
Google and Xcel Energy will deploy 300 MW of Form Energy iron-air storage in Minnesota. 100-hour discharge at 1/10th lithium-ion cost for data centers.
Infrastructure & Cloud
Data Centers Are Draining Aquifers: The Water War Big Tech Doesn’t Want You to See
Data centers consumed 49 billion gallons of water in Texas alone in 2025, projected to reach 399 billion by 2030. Most states lack water reporting.
Infrastructure & Cloud
Cloud Regions Race Into Emerging Markets: Middle East and Southeast Asia Surge
Hyperscalers pour billions into UAE, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and Indonesia as AI capex nears $700B. A two-speed global cloud map is forming fast.
Infrastructure & Cloud
Nuclear-Powered Data Centers: Microsoft, Google, and the AI Energy Gamble
The Energy Math Behind the AI Boom Training a large language model at the scale of GPT-4 consumes roughly 50 gigawatt-hours of electricity — enough to power thousands of homes for a year, burned in a matter of weeks. That figure does not include inference, the continuous
AI & Automation
AI’s Energy Crisis: The Trillion-Dollar Power Problem Behind the AI Boom
The Power Problem Is Here The AI revolution runs on electricity, and electricity is running short. Training a single frontier model like GPT-4 consumed an estimated 40 to 50 times the energy of GPT-3 -- itself a 1,287 MWh training run equivalent to powering 120 US households for a year.
