Paris Marx, author of Hyperscale, has been tracking global data center development for years. The US has a lot to learn from what's happened everywhere from Ireland to New Zealand. Paris Marx's new book couldn't have landed at a better time. The longtime critic of Big Tech and host of the Tech Won't Save Us podcast has been thinking about data centers for years, and Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech's Data Empires comes out right as opposition hits a fever pitch. "I certainly didn't predict that it was all going to kind of come to a head as my book was coming out," he says with a laugh.

At Nvidia's GTC in Berlin, Huang unveiled their new plug-in data center--the DSX Pod--as the key to unlocking Europe's AI infrastructure lag. Jensen Huang outlined his vision of Europe's future at Nvidia's global conference in Berlin on Wednesday. It consists of robotics, AI agents, and modular data centers, with Nvidia unsurprisingly powering it all. "To be part of this AI economy, you don't want to just be consuming the AI. You want to be producing the AI," he told the 4,000-strong crowd at Nvidia's GTC.

A mysterious super PAC that doubles as a pro-solar energy outfit is funding some of the most knives-out attack ads of the midterms season. A mysteriously named political action committee has started running ads reminding voters in Colorado about that time GOP representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado and her date were caught on camera in 2023 getting handsy during a performance of the musical Beetlejuice . That same PAC is producing a spot hitting Anthony Constantino, a Trumpist congressional candidate in upstate New York, because someone used his sticker-printing company to briefly make stickers that read, " Kill the Police ." Attack ads are everywhere in the last month ahead of November's election. But these spots are a little different.

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Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, data center projects in rural areas could be eligible for major tax benefits starting next year. Some hyperscalers do not seem eager to take the free cash. Welcome back to Power Play! Each week, senior writer Molly Taft tackles a topic around this midterm season's biggest issue: data centers. If you've got a question or thought for the column, feel free to shoot Molly an email at [email protected] or reach them securely on Signal at mollytaft.76.

The technology could strap onto existing gas turbines and make them more efficient--but it wouldn't do away with their emissions entirely. A new company has a plan to make the dirty gas turbines powering data centers more efficient: liquid carbon dioxide. American Supercritical came out of stealth Wednesday, announcing $8 million in funding. It wants to retrofit inefficient gas turbines that many data centers rely on for power with units that can generate more power, without adding more emissions (though the gas-fired turbines will continue to emit carbon pollution). The technology can also theoretically be used on a wide variety of energy sources at a time when power demand is skyrocketing.

The president has doubled down on data centers and AI. His base is running in the opposite direction. Welcome back to Power Play! Each week, senior writer Molly Taft tackles a topic around this midterm season's biggest issue: data centers. If you've got a question or thought for the column, feel free to shoot Molly an email at [email protected] or reach them securely on Signal at mollytaft.76.

The satirical collaboration between a creative studio and the music producer behind Big Data, "Bezzy" is a cute little doll that spews the sounds of real data centers. Uh oh, we got a cute alert! Give this soft lil' doll a squeeze, and it shall sing you its telltale song: the piercing, grinding ambient squeals emitted from a real US data center. The Bezzy doll is a stuffed plushie made in a satirical collaboration between the New York-based creative studio Basura and Big Data, the musical project of producer Alan Wilkis, best known for the song "Dangerous," a 2013 collaboration with the band Joywave. The joint project, which is coming out the same day as a new Big Data single, is called Adopt a Data Center.

Submit Your Questions: Why Is Silicon Valley Still a Boys' Club? How are women really faring in Silicon Valley? Submit your questions to our panel and we'll give you the scoop on September 24. In 2026, as DEI and woke were declared over, WIRED set out to investigate the state of gender in Silicon Valley. As tech titans embraced Trump and the right, as Mark Zuckerberg declared that "masculine energy" was needed and Elon Musk cut federal female workers most of all, the backlash was in full swing.

Amazon Web Services didn't design its data centers to withstand war, and now the company admits it can't recover what's been lost. Half a year after Iranian drone strikes knocked out multiple Amazon data centers, the US tech company has acknowledged the permanent loss of some customer data that was hosted in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. Amazon Web Services was "unable to restore access to the resources and data" hosted in some of the war-damaged data centers, according to an AWS dashboard update posted on September 15. The development was first reported by Reuters and suggests that the Iranian strikes inflicted catastrophic damage on the data centers. Customer data was irretrievably lost in one of three AWS availability zones in the United Arab Emirates region, specifically the mec1-az2 availability zone.