#DATACENTERS

Bassines ? Bah Non !BassinesNon@social.tmprs.net
2025-07-04

IA : les data centers transforment les territoires en déserts

Les data centers ont consommé environ 560 milliards de litres d’eau à l’échelle mondiale en 2023. Un chiffre qui selon eux pourrait plus que doubler d’ici à 2030, pour atteindre près de 1 200 milliards de litres par an. 

Extrait

Derrière les promesses de l’intelligence artificielle et du progrès technologique se cache une réalité matérielle brutale : celle de milliers de data centers qui engloutissent des quantités astronomiques d’eau pour assurer leur fonctionnement (...).

Ironie cruelle : ces infrastructures gourmandes en eau s’implantent de plus en plus dans des zones sujettes aux pénuries et aux sécheresses. Microsoft et Google disposent respectivement de 42% et de 15% de leur data centers dans des territoires soumis à un fort stress hydrique. 

La région de l’Aragon, au nord de l’Espagne, est l’une de celles qui en paient le plus les conséquences. Malgré la sécheresse qui frappe régulièrement la région et fragilise ses activités – reposant en grande partie sur l’agriculture –, Amazon y prévoit la construction de trois nouveaux data centers, en plus de celui déjà en activité. 

La releve et la peste : https://lareleveetlapeste.fr/ia-les-data-centers-transforment-les-territoires-en-deserts/

Source Material : https://www.source-material.org/amazon-microsoft-google-trump-data-centres-water-use/

#IA #DataCenters #EconomieNumerique #Microsoft #Amazon #Google #eau #artificialisation #desertification

Le réservoir de Yesa en Aragon (Espagne), à deux pas d’un des sites Amazon en... 2016. On voit au fond un Aqueduc et au premier plan une étendue de terre craquelée par la sécheresse.
2025-07-03

"Google’s electricity consumption from data centers was up 27% from the year before. It’s doubled since 2020, reaching over 30 terawatt-hours. That’s nearly the annual electricity consumption from the entire country of Ireland."

technologyreview.com/2025/07/0

#Electricity #DataCenters #Google

Newsrampnewsramp
2025-07-03

SolarBank targets $395B data center market with renewable energy solutions, projecting 30x AI power increase by 2035. Strategic approach meets growing tech infrastructure demands.

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2025-07-03

Worth a read if you want a fairer assessment than Google's greenwashed environmental report...

'On July 2nd, Kairos Fellowship published a report titled “Google’s Eco-Failures,” which reveals that Google’s expansion of generative AI technologies is causing the corporation to increase its greenhouse gas emissions and total energy and water consumption.

This report succeeds Google’s 2025 environment report, which the company has used since 2016 to mislead activists, lawmakers, and the public about its true environmental toll, instead painting a picture of itself as a benevolent actor amidst our worsening climate crisis.'

#google #AI #ClimateChange #datacenters #Greenwash

noclimateresultsfound.com/repo

ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊dalfen@mstdn.social
2025-07-02

Stargate - OpenAl's project w/ partners like #Oracle to invest $500 billion in #Al infrastructure - was first announced in January at the White House.

Oracle shares climbed following the news and closed up 5% to $229.98, a record high.

The $30 billion deal is more than the current size of its entire cloud infrastructure business.

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#USA #tech #DataCenters

~ Oracle, #OpenAl Expand #Stargate Deal for More #US Data Centers ~

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

To meet the additional demand from OpenAI, Oracle will develop multiple data centers across the US with partners, the people said. Sites in states including Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin and Wyoming are under consideration, in addition to expanding the Abilene site from a current power capacity of 1.2 gigawatts to about 2 gigawatts, they said.
OpenAI is also considering sites in New Mexico, Georgia, Ohio and Pennsylvania, one of the people said.
These new projects will be part of Stargate, and details of the plans may still change, according to a person familiar with the plans. OpenAI and Crusoe declined to comment on the plans.
Oracle didn't return a request for comment.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-02/oracle-openai-ink-stargate-deal-for-4-5-gigawatts-of-us-data-center-power

Accessed: 2 July 2025 at 1623 CSTOracle shares climbed following the news and closed up 5% to $229.98, a record high. The stock has jumped 38% this year, fueled by investor enthusiasm for its cloud business.
Oracle, known for its database software, has gained traction in the market for renting out computing power and storage over the internet, in part by targeting clients focused on AI work. This has led to a jump in revenue and expenses. The $30 billion deal is more than the current size of its entire cloud infrastructure business.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-02/oracle-openai-ink-stargate-deal-for-4-5-gigawatts-of-us-data-center-power

Accessed: 2 July 2025 at 1623 CSTCredit ratings firm S&P wrote Wednesday that Oracle's cloud infrastructure building spree was straining cash flow and that the current spending pace is higher than anticipated. Still, it viewed Oracle's cloud strategy favorably over the long term.
OpenAI said in May it was helping develop a Stargate project in the United Arab Emirates with Oracle, Crusoe, Al chipmaker Nvidia Corp, Cisco Systems Inc. and G42, an Al company backed by the country's sovereign wealth fund.
- With assistance from Josh Saul, Min Jeong Lee, and Naureen S Malik
(Updates with closing share price in the eighth paragraph.)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-02/oracle-openai-ink-stargate-deal-for-4-5-gigawatts-of-us-data-center-power

Accessed: 2 July 2025 at 1623 CST
ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊dalfen@mstdn.social
2025-07-02

For its Stargate initiative, #OpenAI will rent massive compute power from #Oracle data centers (which Oracle will develop with partners to meet increased demand).

The additional capacity totals ~4.5 gigawatts of data center power— enough to power ~3.4 million homes.

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#USA #AI #tech #DataCenters #stargate

~ Oracle, OpenAl Expand Stargate Deal for More #US Data Centers ~

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Oracle, OpenAl Expand Stargate Deal for More US Data Centers

Image: The Oracle offices in Redwood City,
California. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

By Brody_Ford and Rachel Metz
July 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM EDT
Updated on July 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-02/oracle-openai-ink-stargate-deal-for-4-5-gigawatts-of-us-data-center-power

Accessed: 2 July 2025 at 1623 CSTOpenAl has agreed to rent a massive amount of computing power from Oracle Corp. data centers as part of its Stargate initiative, underscoring the intense requirements for cutting-edge artificial intelligence products.
The Al company will rent additional capacity from Oracle totaling about 4.5 gigawatts of data center power in the US, according to people familiar with the work who asked not to be named discussing private information.
That is an unprecedented sum of energy that could power millions of American homes. A gigawatt is akin to the capacity from one nuclear reactor and can provide electricity to roughly 750,000 houses.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-02/oracle-openai-ink-stargate-deal-for-4-5-gigawatts-of-us-data-center-power

Accessed: 2 July 2025 at 1623 CSTEarlier this week, Oracle announced that it had signed a single cloud deal worth $30 billion in annual revenue beginning in fiscal 2028 without naming the customer. This Stargate agreement makes up at least part of that disclosed contract, according to one of the people.
Stargate - OpenAl's project with partners including Oracle and SoftBank Group
Corp. to invest $500 billion in Al infrastructure - was first announced in January at the White House. So far, Oracle has developed a massive data center in Abilene, Texas, for OpenAI alongside development partner Crusoe.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-02/oracle-openai-ink-stargate-deal-for-4-5-gigawatts-of-us-data-center-power

Accessed: 2 July 2025 at 1623 CST
2025-07-02

Having slogged through Google's 2025 Environmental Report, here's my summary...

(all figures are changes from 2023-2024)

Scope 2 location-based GHG emissions up from 9,252,900 - 11,283,200 tCO2e

Scope 3 GHG emissions up from 10,794,000 - 12,053,000 tCO2e

Total Energy Consumption up from 25,910,500 - 32,727,800 MWh

Total waste generated up from 52,000 - 58,500 metric tons

Water consumption up from 6,352 - 8135 million gallons.

So given that they're significantly worse on every major indicator, you might be wondering how Google spins this as 'driving sustainable innovation' (p4) and a 12% reduction in datacentre emissions (p4)...

The answer is that they're buying more electricity under Power Purchase Agreements - meaning that increasing amounts of renewable energy isn't used for decarbonisation, instead they're used to power the growth in AI and datacentre capacity.

This, alongside the focus on efficiency metrics that obfuscate the growing energy and resource demands of Big Tech needs to be recognised as corporate greenwash that is driving climate change, not fixing it

#Google #AI #DataCenters #sustainability #Tech #ClimateChange

sustainability.google/google-2

2025-07-02

JFC.
archive.ph/qRb0m
"it will need to use drinking water for the project’s first two or three years. That’s how long it will take for the project’s developer to build an 18-mile pipeline to transmit what it calls “renewable” water from the regional wastewater treatment plant on the northwest side to the data center complex."

Fuck this shit.

#datacenters #smash_datacenters #ai #water #fossilfuel #neoluddism #tucson #arizona #sonorandesert

Yonhap Infomax Newsinfomaxkorea
2025-07-02

South Korea's logistics center market faces oversupply, prompting a shift from cold storage to ambient and data center conversions as vacancy rates surge and profitability declines.

en.infomaxai.com/news/articleV

The Japan Timesthejapantimes
2025-07-01

As data centers rapidly expand to meet surging AI-driven demand, their soaring electricity consumption largely due to cooling need is straining power systems and prompting tech giants to explore nuclear power solutions. japantimes.co.jp/commentary/20

2025-07-01

We've finished setting up our new PoP in Kansas City! ⚡️

Our plan is to host many of our high-bandwidth services that don't require power or network redundancy there. Our new deployment contains Tor relays operating on our GreenWare hardware, and our NoiseNet network!

Read more about GreenWare 🌎 & NoiseNet 🛜 below: unredacted.org/blog/2025/05/un

#Tor #Privacy #Censorship #Datacenters #Datacenter #Networking #Network #Hardware

dan_nannidan_nanni
2025-06-30

Modern high-speed Ethernet standards often use optical transceivers to transmit data over long distances via fiber optic cables. These transceivers are essential in data centers, enterprise networks, and carrier infrastructure where copper cabling is insufficient for speed or distance requirements

Here are different types of optical transceivers 😎👇

Find high-res pdf books with all my related infographics at study-notes.org

IT InsightsITinsights
2025-06-30

Indiase vastgoedgigant Anant Raj investeert $2 miljard in hyperscale datacenters! 🌐💰 Deze strategische zet versterkt India's digitale toekomst.  
itinsights.nl/het-laatste-it-n

:mastodon:marliesdevet
2025-06-30

| @parismarx: “Het gaat nu deze weg op omdat een aantal van de machtigste mensen ter wereld wil dat al onze middelen hiervoor worden ingezet.”

social.coop/@janwlrvn/11475427


2025-06-29

Des pistes pour mieux réguler les centres de données

Plus gros, toujours plus gros. Face au développement exponentiel des centres de données à Marseille et l’annonce d’un…
#Marseille #FR #France #Actu #News #Europe #EU #actu #Actualités #datacenters #europe #Provence-Alpes-Côted'Azur #Républiquefrançaise
europesays.com/fr/213680/

Professor Charles HaasProfCharlesHaas
2025-06-29

@tante @Nonya_Bidniss
The internet was construction to be resilient to failure of any node, with many pathways. How is building a (small number) of mega-data centers contributing to resilience. Do these not represent a small number of single points of failure?

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