Polymers are fundamental to our daily lives, serving as the core components for a wide array of goods, including clothing, ...

It seems that tech giants eyeing rural zones for data center development have underestimated how attached American farmers have grown to their lands in the decades they’ve been nurturing them. Across ...

Is the data center building boom driven by competitive signaling or real demand? If adoption falls short, today’s boom will bring tomorrow’s bust. It begins quietly, as many stories do, in a small ...

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 ...

Calibrant Energy has signed a definitive agreement with Iron Mountain to build, own, and operate a 23-megawatt-hour (MWh) battery at the latter’s New Jersey data center. Data center as a clean energy ...

A year ago, Redwood Materials didn’t have an energy storage business. Now, it is the fastest-growing unit within the battery recycling and materials startup — a reflection of an AI data center ...

Elon Musk's plan to launch millions of AI satellites could be disastrous for the planet. (Lily Padula for Engadget) At the start of the month, Elon Musk announced that two of his companies — SpaceX ...

The takeaway: Microsoft and other data center operators are racing to develop new methods for storing massive amounts of data on permanent media. Redmond is pursuing a technology based on glass and ...

Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass which can store two million books' worth ...

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 ...

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The first time that University of Oxford astronomer Lyla Jung saw the cosmic configuration on her monitor, she almost didn’t believe it was real. But it was—and Jung and her colleagues went on to ...