AWS Chief Counters Data-Center Backlash With a Netflix Question
The pushback on Amazon’s data centers has a one-line retort from the man who runs them. “If you go to a community and say, ‘Do you not want to use…
SpaceX’s Texas Chip Complex Could Reach $119 Billion
When Elon Musk’s companies first described Terafab, the plan already sounded enormous: a semiconductor and advanced-computing campus in rural Grimes County, Texas, that would dwarf the largest building on Earth…
AWS Plans 36 Data Centers Where Pennsylvania’s Biggest Coal Plant Once Stood
The Homer City Generating Station burned coal for 54 years, and for much of that run it was the largest coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania. It shut down in mid-2023.…
Fitbit’s New Band Brings a Screen Back to the Brand
The teaser was a single line. “Get an Edge on your health. 10.12.26.” On October 9, Google posted it from the Google Health account, and the message settled weeks of…
Batteries Undercut the Gas Turbines Data Centers Count On
The gas turbine has been the default answer to the data center industry’s power problem. On October 9, a report from the consultancy Wood Mackenzie, covered by TechCrunch, made the…
Oracle Hauls Gas to Its Data Centers by Truck
The data center outside Salt Lake City ran for more than a year on natural gas that arrived by truck. Oracle, waiting for a pipeline to be built and connected…
Anthropic Gives a Single Agent a Thousand Hands
The gap between two numbers tells the story. Asked to hunt for bugs hidden in a codebase, one Claude agent working alone found 27 of the 70 defects the test…
Cloudflare Gives Its Decision Model Ears and Eyes
The model Cloudflare built to answer questions without writing a single sentence can now watch video and listen to audio. On October 9 the company released Clef-omni, extending its family…
A $1.5 Billion Loan to Keep a Chip Supplier at Home
The letter arrived at Wolfspeed with a specific purpose: to keep a stretch of the American chip supply chain from leaving the country. On October 7, the War Department’s Office…
The Super Bowl, Now Behind a Subscribe Button
For half a century, the Super Bowl has been the one night when broadcast television could count on the whole country showing up at the same time, on the same…
