Data centers are being built at a frantic pace all over the world, driven by the AI boom. These facilities consume staggering amounts of electricity. By 2028, AI servers alone may use as much energy ...

Researchers at Microsoft have created a data-storage system that can remain readable for at least 10,000 years — and probably much longer. In the digital age, the need for data storage is ballooning.

Shares of Caterpillar, the maker of mining and construction machinery, are up more than 30% since year-end, making it the biggest contributor to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. WSJ’s Jonathan Weil ...

SQL Server backups cannot be restored to older versions directly. Use Export and Import Data-Tier Application for cross-version database migration. Reconfigure permissions, logins, and connection ...

More than $61 billion has flowed into the data center market so far this year. Hyperscalers are increasingly turning to outside capital in the form of debt to fund the energy-intensive infrastructure.

Investment in AI has not just outstripped government-led initiatives like the Manhattan Project and the Apollo program. It has also exceeded the capital put into other, more recent, market-driven ...

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...

Using data analytics – and, ironically, some artificial intelligence – a team at Cornell University has mapped the environmental impact of AI by state. They published their results in the journal ...

With agentic AI, the database must evolve from a passive ledger to an active reasoning engine that informs, guides, and enables autonomous action. For decades, the database has been the silent partner ...

The AI boom is visible from orbit. Satellite photos of New Carlisle, Indiana, show greenish splotches of farmland transformed into unmistakable industrial parks in less than a year’s time. There are ...

AI companies are regularly announcing large data center deals that are fueling a rally in the utility sector. But the utilities on the frontline of the AI boom are struggling to figure out how much of ...