HackerNoon

I Spent Two Weeks Testing 8 Databases With the Same Question - Here's What Actually Happened

The Dataset: I grabbed 6 months of real e-commerce data from our warehouse: The Test: Five simple questions that every analytics dashboard asks: How much money did we make each day?
Opinion

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

Tech companies are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions and other pollution.
AZ Central

We estimated data centers' water and power use. Here's how

Data center operators and utilities often do not disclose facility-specific energy and water usage data. The Republic built a database to estimate data centers' energy capacity by analyzing air ...
Business Wire

Snowflake Makes Enterprise Data AI-Ready With Snowflake Postgres and Advanced Innovations for Open Data Interoperability

Leading enterprises including BlueCloud and Sigma Computing will rely on Snowflake Postgres to reduce data silos and complex data pipelines for AI and analytics use cases Snowflake Horizon Catalog ...
Morningstar

ClickHouse Announces Native Postgres Service, Offering a Unified Data Stack for Real-Time and AI-Driven Applications

ClickHouse, Inc., the company behind the world’s fastest real-time analytical database, announced a high-performance, enterprise-grade Postgres service natively integrated with ClickHouse, delivering ...
ZDNet

I discovered a little-known way to power your home during an outage - here's how

Half of EV owners already use bidirectional power regularly. Three of four future EV owners are open to investing in a V2H setup. Most V2H car owners bought their EVs with backup power in mind.
AZ Central

Gas power plant for data center project stirs concerns in Surprise

A developer plans to build a 160-acre data center and its own gas-fired power plant in Surprise. Residents near the proposed site worry about air pollution, health risks, and safety concerns. Because ...
Wall Street Journal

Data Centers’ Power Failure

While I agree with Peter Huntsman’s assessment of the environmental lobby’s hijacking of U.S. energy policy, and the need for restoration of fossil fuel supply, his argument for catering to the energy ...
Reuters

Microsoft rolls out initiative to limit data-center power costs, water use impact

Jan 13 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab on Tuesday unveiled an initiative to curb water usage at its U.S. data centers and limit the impact on the general population from any potential ...
CNBC

Data center REIT CEO says real estate ‘not in an oversupply state’

Andy Power, CEO of Digital Realty says data center real estate is not oversupplied as hyperscalers like Nvidia, Amazon, Google and Meta announce more projects. JLL expects data center capacity to ...
Reason

Data Centers Use Lots of Electricity. This Bill Would Let Them Go Off the Grid.

Tech companies are building data centers as quickly as possible to run AI. These facilities are controviersial because they use copious amounts of electricity and might tax an electrical grid that in ...