New data center design optimizes AI tasks

Microsoft shares new data center design featuring a closed-loop water system for cooling
The Redmond, Wash., tech giant shared new data center design plans that use a closed-loop water system for cooling its processing hardware.
Microsoft: New data center design optimizes AI tasks, with zero water to cool
Steve Solomon, Vice President, Datacenter Infrastructure Engineering, Microsoft (MSFT) wrote in an earlier release: “This summer, we released
The Prompt: Microsoft Designs Data Centers That Recycle Water
Microsoft debuted designs for a new type of data center that consumes zero water to cool its chips and servers. The system simply recycles water added to it at the time of construction, and could help eliminate the need for up to 125 million liters of water per data center per year.
Microsoft to launch zero water consumption cooling for future data centers
Company says this is part of its sustainability efforts as it continues to build new facilities to support AI and other technologies.
Microsoft previews new water-efficient data center design
Microsoft Corp. has previewed a new data center design that will significantly reduce the amount of water necessary to cool its servers. Steve Solomon, the company’s vice president of data center infrastructure engineering,
Microsoft’s New Datacenter Design Uses No Water for Cooling
Microsoft, one of the biggest cloud service providers with hundreds of data centers around the world detailed a next-gen data center design that consumes no water for cooling.

GE Vernova to Power City-Sized Data Centers With Gas

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Amid the A.I. Boom, These States Have Become Data Center Hubs
A.I. data centers are continuing to eat up vast amounts of electricity, especially in states like Virginia, Texas and ...
Data center requests annexation into Ellendale
A large data center just outside of Ellendale has asked to be annexed into the city limits, a move that would increase tax ...
Multi-billion dollar AI data center to be built in West Feliciana Parish
West Feliciana Parish President Kenny Havard confirmed Tuesday that a multi-billion dollar Hut 8 artificial intelligence data ...
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‘Grow At All Costs’: Data Center Firms Willing To Pay Far More For Power Amid AI Gold Rush
A new survey from KPMG shows how much more data center developers and big tech tenants are willing to pay for power as the ...
Virginia can't keep up with unconstrained data center growth, report warns
Data center growth in Virginia could mean billions in energy costs if it isn’t reigned in — and residents would likely pay ...
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Another mall-sized data center aims to join south Fulton’s growing roster
Plans were revealed Friday to build a 1.9 million-square-foot data center campus in the city of South Fulton, Georgia.
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AWS Reveals New AI Data Center Designs
Amazon Web Services unveiled redesigns of many components in its data centers meant to increase performance and efficiency ...
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Data center fever ahead of Virginia’s 2025 legislative session
As Virginia inches closer to the 2025 legislative session all eyes are on a state watchdog report on data centers.
Daily on Energy: Pollution fee draft bill intro’d, SCOTUS denies coal ash rule stay, and more data center news
Good afternoon readers – we are halfway through the week! Up on Capitol Hill, the Environmental Protection Agency has been awarded a big win from the Supreme Court over the agency’s coal ash rule.