EDB Postgres(R) AI Delivers Superior Predictability vs. Cloud Data Warehouses in High-Concurrency Benchmark, Unveils Q1 Platform Updates to Power the Agentic AI Era

Independent benchmark by McKnight Consulting Group reveals EDB Postgres AI for WarehousePG delivers up to 58% cost savings and more consistent concurrent performance, while new platform features ...
Analytics Insight

Best Data Analysis Courses in 2026: What to Learn First and Where to Learn It

In-demand skills include data analysis. It has been predicted that in 2026 businesses will place a high value on analysts who ...
Bloomberg L.P.

AI Data Centers May Not Need Constant Peak Power, Study Finds

AI data centers can operate without using peak power continuously, according to the results of a UK trial, a finding that could have implications for electricity systems worldwide. Grids from the US ...
KARE 11

Minnesota Power partners with Google data center in Hermantown

HERMANTOWN, Minn. — Minnesota Power announced a partnership with Google to supply energy for a new data center in Hermantown. In a press release Tuesday, Minnesota Power announced the data center ...
Wall Street Journal

A New Threat to Power Grids: Data Centers Unplugging at Once

Early last year, a cluster of data centers in Virginia suddenly dropped off the power grid, threatening the stability of the already vulnerable system. The roughly 40 data centers, which had been ...
WRAL

Duke study says data center flexibility could cut rising power costs

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is forcing utilities to confront a question they have not faced in more than a decade: how to meet a surge in electricity demand. Across the country, ...
Seeking Alpha

Trump orders tech giants to power their own AI data centers under ‘rate protection’ pledge

U.S. President Donald Trump has said that major technology companies developing artificial intelligence data centers will have to cover their electricity needs under what he called a newly negotiated ...
Electrek

Data centers are becoming power plants – this NJ project proves it

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 ...
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 ...
Inc

Data Centers Are About to Use as Much Power as Japan—and the Solutions Are Getting Weird

Global electricity consumption for data centers is set to more than double by 2030. According to the International Energy Agency, consumption will hit around 945 TWh in just four years. That’s roughly ...
Reuters

Microsoft exploring using advanced power lines to make data centers more energy-efficient

Feb 10 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab is exploring using superconducting power lines in its data centers, which could potentially accelerate its massive U.S. build-out of the server ...