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Apple is ready to replace Game Center with a more Xbox-like gaming app
Apple plans to announce an app focused on video games for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV at its Worldwide Developer Conference next week, according to Bloomberg. The app will let you launch games you’ve installed on your devices and serve as a hub for things like achievements and leaderboards. Apple is expected to launch its gaming app alongside…
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Why meeting data center demand is becoming a worldwide challenge
There’s an old saying that money is what makes the world go ‘round. However, to hear some IT professionals tell it, data center availability may soon join the ranks of the societally indispensable. We do live in a world where the British government is investing in data center infrastructure while Texas is openly courting firms to set up shop in…
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Meta faces Democratic probe into plans to power a giant data center with gas
Meta’s building a new AI data center so massive in Louisiana that the local utility company has plans to construct three new gas-fired power plants to provide it with enough electricity. Now, advocates and lawmakers are pressing Meta for answers about how it’ll clean up pollution stemming from the data center’s energy consumption. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), ranking member of…
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Inside the Sines DC, possibly the coolest data center in the world
There’s a reason why most coal power plants were built by the coast. It’s the ocean, nature’s liquid chiller, where they can pipe cooling seawater through their systems and reduce the heat from production. Liquid cooling is by no means a new technology, having been first used in the 60s to chill mainframe computers. Most data centers today already use…
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$200 billion to build a data center? Soaring AI demands mean costs could skyrocket within a few years
Surging AI-related infrastructure demands mean data centers could soon cost as much as $200 billion to build, according to a recent study, with most owned privately rather than by governments. Research by Epoch AI tracing the computing powering AI by analyzing 500 systems shows that AI supercomputers — Epoch’s phrase for AI data centers or GPU clusters — are doubling…
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Microsoft says this data center cooling technique can cut emissions by one-fifth – but switching to renewables will prove far more impactful
Microsoft has published what it said is a first-of-its-kind look at the total environmental footprint of data center cooling technologies, from raw materials to retirement. The ‘cradle-to-grave’ life cycle assessment (LCA), published in Nature, tots up the total carbon, energy, and water usage across four major cooling methods: air cooling, cold plates, one-phase immersion, and two-phase immersion. “In a nutshell,…
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First Microsoft, now AWS: Tech giants are hitting the breaks on costly data center plans
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has paused plans for some data center leases, according to analysts, sparking further concerns about the cost of AI infrastructure spending plans. According to reports from Reuters, Wells Fargo analysts spotted that AWS had paused discussions over data center leases in overseas markets specifically. It wasn’t clear, the analysts said, exactly how much capacity was being…
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Shark Tank’s Mr. Wonderful is Building the World’s Largest AI Data Center in Canada
Photo from Data Center World 2025 in Washington, D.C. Image: Drew Robb/TechnologyAdvice Kevin O’Leary — better known as “Mr. Wonderful” from ABC’s “Shark Tank” — made a surprise appearance at Data Center World 2025 in Washington, D.C. What’s a venture capitalist doing at a major IT event? He’s building the world’s largest AI factories, and he’s ready to talk about…
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How to turn your VPN on and off through Control Center
Toggling your VPN connection should be quick and simple. No one wants to dig through settings menus every time they need to connect or disconnect from their VPN. This guide shows you how to add VPN controls to your device’s Control Center (iOS), making your online privacy just a swipe away. Why add VPN controls to Control Center/quick settings? Having…
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Build 22635.5240 for Windows 11 gets a new clock with seconds in the Notification Center (Beta)
Microsoft is testing a new clock feature for the notification center on Windows 11, similar to the feature available on Windows 10. The new feature appears hidden with the release of build 22635.5240 (KB5055645) in the Beta Channel for version 23H2. Computers enrolled in the Beta Channel are now getting the Windows 11 build 22635.5240 as a minor update that…
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