International Monetary Fund

Alternative Data and Monetary Policy

Central bankers are tapping nontraditional data sources for a more complete picture of the economy In the spring of 2020, the Federal Reserve faced a challenge: The COVID-19 pandemic was upending ...
Seeking Alpha

Data centers’ sudden grid exits raise new reliability risks: WSJ

A wave of Virginia data centers abruptly disconnecting from the power grid last year exposed a growing threat to U.S. electricity reliability: massive customers vanishing all at once, The Wall Street ...
CNET

Microsoft Researchers Figure Out How to Store Data Inside Glass Using Lasers

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Answers to FAQs about AI data centers, including water, energy usage

The Journal Sentinel asked readers to send us their questions about Wisconsin data centers. More than 300 responded. We will be posting the answers to those questions here over the next weeks as more ...
Tom's Guide

1 billion personal records exposed in massive new data leak — full names, addresses, phone numbers and more

Online Security 3.5 million hit in US college data breach with full names, dates of birth, SSNs, bank info and more exposed — how to see if you’re affected Online Security 22.6 million hit in massive ...
TechRepublic

Microsoft Unveils Glass Storage That Could Preserve Data for 10,000 Years

Microsoft Unveils Glass Storage That Could Preserve Data for 10,000 Years Your email has been sent Microsoft has just hit a major milestone in a project that could end the digital dark age. Their ...
The Washington Post

Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S.

The GW Ranch project approved on 8,000 windswept acres of West Texas will look like many of the other data centers that have sprung up across the country to support Silicon Valley’s ambitions for ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft’s new 10,000-year data storage medium: glass

Archival storage poses lots of challenges. We want media that is extremely dense and stable for centuries or more, and, ideally, doesn’t consume any energy when not being accessed. Lots of ideas have ...
New Scientist

Data centres could store information in glass for thousands of years

An automated system for storing large amounts of information in glass could change the future of data centres. Our world runs on data, from the internet and readouts of countless industrial sensors to ...
Microsoft

Microsoft and G42 Accelerate UAE’s Digital Future with Major Data Centre Expansion

Microsoft and international neocloud provider, G42 set to expand the UAE’s digital infrastructure with a 200-megawatt (MW) increase in datacenter capacity As part of Microsoft’s $15.2 billion ...
Reuters

Data centre operator DayOne aims to raise $5 billion in US IPO, source says

HONG KONG, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Global data centre operator DayOne, affiliated with China's GDS Holdings (9698.HK), opens new tab, aims to raise as much as $5 billion in a U.S. initial public offering, ...