US data centers used about 192 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2024 (4.7% of national electricity), per Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. LBNL's 2025 Upd…
National data-center interconnection requests topped 700 GW - over ten times actual US data-center consumption. Texas's PUCT published a draft SB6 rule requiring 75 MW+…
Hyperscalers and ventures like OpenAI's Stargate program announced campuses sized in the hundreds of megawatts to multiple gigawatts. Texas signed Senate Bill 6 in June…
Microsoft signed a 20-year power purchase agreement tied to Constellation's restart of Three Mile Island Unit 1 (Crane Clean Energy Center, 835 MW). Google, Amazon and M…
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory published its December 2024 Data Center Energy Usage Report, estimating 2023 consumption at 176 TWh (4.4%) and projecting 6.7%-12%…
Following ChatGPT's 2022 debut, demand for advanced AI accelerators grew rapidly. NVIDIA became the central supplier of AI training and inference hardware as hyperscaler…
ChatGPT's November 2022 public launch drove explosive consumer awareness of generative AI, followed immediately by enterprise investment across nearly every major techno…
Google researchers published the transformer architecture, the technical foundation for nearly every modern large language model - a prerequisite for the compute race th…
AlexNet demonstrated a major leap in computer-vision accuracy by training a deep neural network on GPUs rather than CPUs at the ImageNet competition - trained on just tw…
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google rapidly expanded US hyperscale cloud infrastructure for enterprise migration, streaming and mobile internet growth - a full dec…
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