LONDON (AP) — Damage to three Amazon Web Services facilities in the Middle East from Iranian drone strikes highlights the rapid growth of data centers in the region, as well as the industry's ...

A rectangular piece of translucent blue glass has several vertical sections of varying blue shades. This piece of glass has a copy of Microsoft flight simulator map data written into it using ...

Microsoft Research has announced Project Silica, a method to read/write data into small slabs of glass. The glass offers extreme stability, with experiments suggesting the data would be stable for ...

Archival storage poses lots of challenges. We want media that is extremely dense and stable for centuries or more, and, ideally, doesn’t consume any energy when not being accessed. Lots of ideas have ...

An archive system that encodes information in modified optical properties of glass could be a fast, efficient way to store huge quantities of data. Read the paper: Laser writing in glass for dense, ...

Long-term preservation of digital information has long challenged archivists and datacenters, as magnetic tapes and hard drives degrade within decades. Existing archival storage solutions have limited ...

What really happens after you hit enter on that AI prompt? WSJ’s Joanna Stern heads inside a data center to trace the journey and then grills up some steaks to show just how much energy it takes to ...

Bain Capital-backed Bridge Data Centres is planning a foray into the Middle East, Australia and Japan as data-center operators worldwide race to build hyperscale infrastructure for the fast-growing ...

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A product launch can feel like a finish line, but in most tech organizations, it’s really the start of the next job: refining the solution to ensure it has staying power. Once customers start clicking ...