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Better conductors and improved sensing capabilities expected to unlock at least 23 gigawatts of additional capacity

Am I over-engineering my analytics portfolio project? I'm working on a big portfolio project with the Olist Brazilian e-commerce dataset. Lately I wonder if I'v

Europe's largest local authority still cannot get auditors to vouch for its books as historic data problems linger

Pew finds growing concern over their effects on energy bills, the environment, and nearby communities

The OECD's Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs 2026 report found that 56% of South Africa's MSMEs are unregistered.

Tax breaks, water, noise, decommissioning - report tells local officials what to nail down before signing

Construction trade unions and service-sector unions are reacting to the same data center boom in opposite directions, and the mechanism behind it is not really

How come that super-smart AI of yours didn't figure this out, frontier labs?

Cloud giant expresses love for DuckDB by buying its main support and development company

A few hours ago I switched my nameservers to Cloudflare in order to enable R2 bucket serving through my own subdomain, and I found out that it silently had inje

The capital holds two-thirds of capacity, while multimegawatt projects gather beyond the M25

I keep seeing people on Reddit criticizing AI and data centers because of how much water they use. I think the concern is legitimate, but I also think there's a

Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD. 145 comments, 291 points on Hacker News.

An unmapped village. A community overlooked for development. A disaster response slowed by missing data. Those are the kinds of problems Omowonuola Akintola has

Texas announced new a audit on data centers that could slow approval for new facilities seeking to connect to the state energy grid. Governor Greg Abbott (R) on

NHS England has admitted that a key data-protection document misstated who could see patients’ medical records. It did not disclose the whole arrangement. Staff

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Cloud database upstart wants one virtual machine core to power multiple SQL frontends

Privacy guardian warns public trust quickly erodes when supplier access comes as a surprise

The largest grid operator in the U.S. says it will cut power to large data centers to prevent blackouts starting next year.

SPONSORED FEATURE: AI's hunger for data outstrips storage smarts, leaving GPUs famished

For decades, Nigeria's tax authority relied on companies to report their sales months after transactions had taken place. Now it wants to monitor business activ

Health service told to ensure ministers don't mistake before-and-after comparisons for cause and effect

New data centers built through 2033 could consume as much electricity as India uses today.