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AI data centers face increasing complaints about inaudible but 'felt' infrasound " citizens complain high- and low-frequency sounds do not register on decibel meters but cause adverse health effects
1+ hour, 11+ min ago (702+ words) Tom's Hardware - Get deeper insights with deeper News Analysis posts You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Data center projects have faced resistance from residents and communities over their impact on power prices, but another complaint is being…...
$200 'socketed' Nvidia AI GPU for servers hacked into a PCIe card with custom PCB and 3 D-printed cooling " modded Tesla V100 SMX data center GPU runs AI LLMs and is more efficient than many modern midrange offerings in AI inference
1+ hour, 31+ min ago (279+ words) Another hidden gem is about to be price-hiked now. Both cards have 16 GB of VRAM, and the RX 7800 XT is even newer with supposedly more efficient silicon, but then again, Nvidia is the gold standard for software support in these…...
Cloudflare cuts 20% of its jobs due to AI, and its stock takes a 19% spill " 1, 100 jobs disappearing as company increased usage of AI sixfold over past months
22+ hour, 21+ min ago (250+ words) Tom's Hardware - Get deeper insights with deeper News Analysis posts You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Jobs cuts related to increased AI usage have practically become background noise at this point, but there's still the occasional outlier…...
Maryland citizens slapped with $2 billion grid upgrade bill for out-of-state AI data centers " state complains to federal energy regulators, says additional cost breaks "ratepayer protection pledge" promises
21+ hour, 58+ min ago (476+ words) Tom's Hardware - Get deeper insights with deeper News Analysis posts You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful "Without FERC action, Maryland customers face paying billions for transmission infrastructure that PJM is advancing to benefit data centers," said Maryland…...
Supermicro-tied execs used Thailand government entity to ship Nvidia AI GPUs to China " report alleges Chinese web giant Alibaba received restricted servers
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (434+ words) Tom's Hardware - Get deeper insights with deeper News Analysis posts You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful A Bloomberg investigation on Friday shed some additional light on the indictment of Supermicro executives and employees tied to a $2. 5 billion…...
Desperate SK hynix customers offer to buy its EUV machines and fund new fabs as memory capacity hits zero amid crushing AI-driven shortages " worsening global shortages pry open wallets to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (261+ words) Tom's Hardware Premium equips you with world-class coverage and detailed insights into the evolving hardware landscape. Available capacity is "essentially zero," source says. Arrangements where customers fund dedicated production capacity are common in logic chipmaking, but they have no precedent…...
AI data center bans are rapidly multiplying across the US " 69 jurisdictions block new builds, with four moves noted as permanent
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (323+ words) Tom's Hardware - Get deeper insights with deeper News Analysis posts You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful The number of bans being enacted against data centers is increasing across the U. S. , with one tracker listing 14 new bans from March…...
Senator at center of Utah AI data center debate gets physical, slaps phone out of reporter's hand " reporter covering cases of harassment against his business
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (226+ words) The senator's anger turned physical when he was recorded. Utah State Senator Jerry Stevenson (R. -Layton) got into a heated confrontation with a reporter from ABC4 who was covering the reported harassment of his business, which soon turned physical after he slapped…...
Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom " Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (258+ words) The AI boom that keeps on giving. The Internet Archive, whose mission is to provide "universal access to all knowledge," is one of the organizations affected by this crisis. It holds around 210 petabytes of archives, with another 100 terabytes added every…...
Google's Deep Mind to train AI on player actions in quarter-million-player MMORPG Eve Online " Google bought in by purchasing a minority stake in the newly independent Fenris Creations
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (282+ words) It is hoped Eve Online will help instill "skills that AI has not yet fully mastered" in Deep Mind. It is important to understand why Google Deep Mind would part with "millions" to secure a minority stake in Fenris Creations....