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70% of Americans oppose data centers near their homes, now less popular than nuclear power plants — opposition towards nearby AI infrastructure heating up as tech companies ramp up projects to acquire more compute People don't want data centers in their backyard. A new Gallup sur

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Production of Chinese chips could ramp up this year, as executives at the country's biggest tech companies look to deploy more homegrown technology — as it's reported U.S. chip giant Nvidia could return. On Wednesday, internet titan Tencent suggested that production of Chinese ho

AI Transforms Data Centers into Power and Cooling Plants Dense GPU clusters are reshaping data center design and widening the gap between AI factories and legacy enterprise facilities. AI infrastructure is upending how data centers are designed. As GPU clusters push rack densitie

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Donald Trump has very little leverage heading into two days of meetings with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, in Beijing this week, experts say. The thinking goes that Trump came into office with a plan that has since largely failed. He hoped to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, settle

The tyranny of software is almost over. Since the first computer programmers wrote the first computer programs, we, the users of that software, have been forced to live in the worlds those programs create. The features are the features. The design is the design. Want something el

AMD reaches 46% of server x86 CPU revenue — Intel still controls 70% of the consumer PC market share AMD continues to grow stronger as Intel's positions slip. The first quarter of 2026 was quite favorable for AMD as the company managed to increase its unit share on the market of

$499 case turns your PC into a liquid cooling masterpiece for your wall — Portal Advanced comes with an integrated distribution plate and reservoir to start of your build Singularity Computers has launched the Portal Advanced, a premium wall-mounted display case designed to showc

Bitcoin trader recovers $400,000 using Claude AI after getting 'stoned' and losing wallet password 11 years ago — bot tried 3.5 trillion passwords before decrypting an old wallet backup The user apparently changed the password while 'stoned.' A Bitcoin holder who changed their wa

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Louis Rossmann taunts Bambu Lab by hosting banned 3D Printer firmware fork, dares $1 billion company to sue him — more creators pledge support and boycotts, Snapmaker donates equipment to embattled developer Right-to-repair feud gets aggressive. More people are taking a stand aga

An interview with me about the implications of the compute shortage on Aggregation Theory, consumer AI, and more. Subscribe to Stratechery Plus for full access. Already subscribed? $15 / month or $150 / year With Stratechery Plus you get access to the subscriber-only Stratechery

This $329.99 32GB Corsair Pro Overclocking kit is the cheapest DDR5 RAM on sale right now — ultra-fast 6400 MT/s memory upgrade for your gaming PC comes with $70 price drop that makes it $40 cheaper than its next-best rival This unmissable RAM deal is the cheapest we can find rig

49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could be left powerless as AI data centers inhale electricity supply — power company looking to redirect power to 12 data centers, high demand plus a regulatory limbo equals a dim situation At this rate, candlemaker stocks are looking promising. Data c

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that U.S. President Donald Trump "asked me to come" to the China summit in Beijing, when asked by reporters about his trip. Huang was a later addition to the high-stakes trip on Tuesday, after his name was noticably absent from a list of executives ma

DIGITIMES observes that with the rise of AI servers, copper-cable transmission is increasingly unable to meet rising bandwidth and energy-efficiency requirements, making the shift from copper to optics a key industry trend. Optical interconnect technologies can be broadly categor

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MOST POPULAR EVENTS - Toxic Flows: When Your AI Agent Skill Becomes a Supply Chain Attack When a developer installs an AI agent skill – granting it access to secured IT resources and data – they make a significant trust decision. - The Hardware Crunch: How Supply Chain Turbulence

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Campbell Brown has spent her career chasing accurate information, first as a renowned TV journalist, then as Facebook’s first, and only, dedicated news chief. Now, watching AI reshape how people consume information, she sees history threatening to repeat itself. This time, she’s

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While AI is now being applied to everything from healthcare to customer support, no single use case has yet been nearly as popular or lucrative as code writing. Jack Newton, co-founder and CEO of Clio, a Canadian law firm management software company, is convinced that legal tech

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