Among the many problems posed by the rapid proliferation of data centers around the world is the strain on local water supplies. These facilities need plenty of water for cooling the vast arrays of ...

Microsoft Researchers Figure Out How to Store Data Inside Glass Using Lasers ...

"What Google is doing is ensuring that when we show up, we aren't putting additional costs on other ratepayers," its head of ...

DNA, the genetic blueprints in every living organism, is nature's most efficient storage mechanism, capable of storing about 215 million gigabytes of data per gram. That storage capacity, if applied ...

Researchers use mini plasma explosions to encode the equivalent of two million books into a coaster-sized device. The method ...

For roughly a decade, Microsoft has been perfecting a high-density storage technology that uses glass, lasers, and cameras, and ensures it stays intact for millennia. That's a huge improvement over ...

Journal Sentinel readers sent more than 300 questions about data centers in Wisconsin. Here is a summary of the most common ...

Google plans to deploy a 300 MW/30 GWh iron-air battery system in Minnesota under an agreement with Xcel Energy, pairing it with 1.6 GW of new wind and solar.

Elon Musk wants to launch a million satellites, but researchers say global warming is changing the upper atmosphere in ways that makes space junk linger.

In a new study, scientists at Microsoft Research have shown that they can write information into a lump of borosilicate glass. Their calculations suggest the data trapped inside would be stable for at ...

One of the few things most people can agree on when discussing life after the Potter Valley Project is that the reservoir created by Coyote Valley Dam needs to hold more water.