TL;DR: Microsoft is developing ultra-durable data storage using borosilicate glass and femtosecond lasers, enabling 4.8TB capacity on a small, heat- and damage-resistant medium. This archival ...

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 ...

WEIRTON — A Minnesota-based Google data center will have some backup from a local source. According to officials, Form Energy will deploy a 300-megawatt and 30 gigawatt-hour multi-day iron air battery ...

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...

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I can't stand opening the Microsoft Store. It's slow to load, confusing to browse, and full of ads for things I don't care about. Luckily, thanks to a new feature, I don't have to open the Microsoft ...

With so much data stored on ephemeral mediums like hard drives and magnetic tape, what will remain of our civilization in the millennia to come? Thanks to an innovation from Microsoft researchers, the ...

A team at Microsoft Research combined lasers, machine learning and tiny glass rectangles to demonstrate a new robotic data storage system that could, in theory, still be readable 10,000 years from now ...

Researchers at Microsoft have created a data-storage system that can remain readable for at least 10,000 years — and probably much longer. In the digital age, the need for data storage is ballooning.

Improvements to data writing and reading techniques, alongside a new way to store data, mean the technology is more accessible than before. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Thousands of years from now, what will remain of our digital era? The ever-growing vastness of human knowledge is no longer stored in libraries, but on hard drives that struggle to last decades, let ...

Global electricity consumption for data centers is set to more than double by 2030. According to the International Energy Agency, consumption will hit around 945 TWh in just four years. That’s roughly ...