Editor's note: This is the first of three feature articles Ars is publishing to explore the financial, technical, and competitive dimensions of orbital data centers. Although the idea of putting data ...

Meeting data center electricity demand with fossil fuels will add $30 billion to annual electricity costs. Clean energy will ...

Not every discussion about data centers is grounded in fact, and many people have limited visibility into how these facilities operate or what AI workloads require.

The power density and scale of AI computing deployments are changing every aspect of how data centers are designed and operated. For decades, data centers had total IT loads measured in MWs and were ...