EDB Postgres(R) AI Delivers Superior Predictability vs. Cloud Data Warehouses in High-Concurrency Benchmark, Unveils Q1 Platform Updates to Power the Agentic AI Era

Independent benchmark by McKnight Consulting Group reveals EDB Postgres AI for WarehousePG delivers up to 58% cost savings and more consistent concurrent performance, while new platform features ...
InfoQ

Google BigQuery Previews Cross-Region SQL Queries for Distributed Data

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Soroosh Khodami discusses why we aren't ready ...
WDBJ

Google Data Center’s expected water use made public

BOTETOURT COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - The Western Virginia Water Authority this week released records detailing Google’s projected water use at a planned data center in Botetourt County, following a ...
Wall Street Journal

How Jet Engines Are Powering Data Centers

Shares of Caterpillar, the maker of mining and construction machinery, are up more than 30% since year-end, making it the biggest contributor to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. WSJ’s Jonathan Weil ...
InfoQ

OpenAI Scales Single Primary Postgresql to Millions of Queries per Second for ChatGPT

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with ...
Houston Chronicle

How much water do AI data centers use? A new survey could help Texas regulators find out.

Water consumption by data centers and cryptomining facilities will be the focus of a new data-collection effort launched Friday by the Texas Public Utility Commission. Demand to build new data centers ...
Inside Higher Ed

Education Dept. Tells Universities Not to Use Student Voting Data

The Education Department sent a message to colleges and universities nationwide Thursday: Any that use data released this year by a massive student voting study risk being labeled violators of a ...
AZ Central

Data centers guzzle Arizona's water and power. We calculated how much

The proliferation of data centers in Arizona raises concerns about the strain on the state's water and power resources. Existing and planned data centers in Maricopa County could nearly double the ...
AZ Central

We estimated data centers' water and power use. Here's how

Data center operators and utilities often do not disclose facility-specific energy and water usage data. The Republic built a database to estimate data centers' energy capacity by analyzing air ...
BGR

AI Data Centers Are Causing These 4 Items You Use Every Day To Skyrocket In Price

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become woven into our daily lives as more people adopt it. According to OpenAI's analysis of over 1.5 million conversations, many people are relying on ChatGPT to ...
The Hill

Grid reliability projected to decline as data centers drive demand, watchdog says

The outlook for electric grid reliability in North America is worsening, as demand may outpace supply in the years ahead, according to a key watchdog. In its annual Long-Term Reliability Assessment, ...
Wired

ICE Asks Companies About ‘Ad Tech and Big Data’ Tools It Could Use in Investigations

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is asking companies to provide information about “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech” products that would “directly support investigations activities,” according to ...