18+ hour, 33+ min ago   (179+ words) Data centers generally provide few permanent jobs despite taking up huge swaths of land, according to experts, news organizations and company records." Data centers are facilities that house computer servers and often span hundreds of thousands of square feet. Multiple…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (785+ words) Very few of us would consider a telegraph to be cutting-edge technology today, but in 1864, it absolutely was." In the mid-19th century, such technology was still a luxury for most of the world and using it wasn't exactly cheap. Like the…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago   (913+ words) A judge handed Nevada data center giant Switch a setback Monday in a battle of rival developers at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center (TRIC). In a 16-page ruling, Storey County District Judge Jason Woodbury gutted Switch's argument that Tract Management…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (183+ words) Energy-intensive data centers, used for artificial intelligence (AI), are increasing demand for electricity across the U.S., including in Nevada. The Electric Power Research Institute found that data centers accounted for 8.69% of electricity consumed in Nevada in 2023, projected to grow to 20% by…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (675+ words) Judge Jason Woodbury might not be a music fan, but in granting a preliminary injunction this past week in a case involving competing data center developers he has Switch Ltd. humming a tune that sounds a little like On the…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (517+ words) Readers have asked: Is there anything I can do to stop my information from being leaked this way?" The trackers we found on health exchanges are extremely common and are used by the world's most popular websites. We've found them…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (842+ words) Facts are in dispute, but one look inside Judge Jason Woodbury's courtroom gave a clear picture of the rising stakes in the battle of rivals in Nevada's lucrative and competitive data center service industry. DigitalBridge, which manages more than $88 billion…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (587+ words) Among the exhibits in the case are emails from Switch executives that appear to show the company's efforts to use social media to degrade rivals. While it's hardly the stuff of a "Succession" episode, it paints Nevada's data center darling…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1130+ words) Last month, the Reno City Council approved the Oppidan Data Center to become the city's'second data center amid a debate about regulation and their environmental impacts. This story originally appeared in the Sierra Nevada Ally and is being republished here…...