Hackernews posts about Datacentres

1. The rapid growth of data centres is delaying new homes in London (www.bbc.com)
   109 points by 1659447091 16 days ago | 56 comments
2. Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal (www.theguardian.com)
   4 points by Teever 24 days ago | discuss
3. Saudi Arabia wants to host the cheapest data centres (www.economist.com)
   3 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | discuss
4. Saudi Big Bet on AI Film-Making as Hollywood Moves from Studios to Datacentres (www.agbi.com)
   2 points by pbahra 30 days ago | 1 comments
5. Study: The development of carbon-neutral data centres in space [pdf] (www3.ntu.edu.sg)
   2 points by giuliomagnifico 24 days ago | discuss
6. Liquid Technologies Intelligently Seeps Through Africa, Spilling Globally
   1 points by FotizoPhronesis 3 days ago | discuss
7. Datacenters in space aren't going to work (taranis.ie)
   498 points by mindracer 20 days ago | 437 comments
8. Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters (garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr)
   289 points by ibobev about 5 hours ago | 55 comments
9. Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters? (martinalderson.com)
   241 points by davedx 16 days ago | 194 comments
10. More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters (www.theguardian.com)
    6 points by thelastgallon 11 days ago | 1 comments
11. Meta and Google Discuss Deploying TPUs in Meta Datacenters Starting 2027 (finance.yahoo.com)
    5 points by mfiguiere 25 days ago | discuss
12. Superpower: a 42MW natural gas turbine optimized for AI datacenters (twitter.com)
    3 points by flinner 10 days ago | discuss
13. AI space datacenters are impossible (ulveon.net)
    2 points by kevin061 3 days ago | discuss
14. From Georgia to Essex, AI datacenters are testing public goodwill (www.theregister.com)
    1 points by Bender 2 days ago | discuss
15. Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers (andrewmccalip.com)
    191 points by flinner 4 days ago | 274 comments
16. Built a first-principles interactive model for space data center economics (andrewmccalip.com)
    2 points by enderfusion 4 days ago | 2 comments
17. The Missing Datacenter OS (addxorrol.blogspot.com)
    2 points by fanf2 1 day ago | 1 comments
18. Show HN: I vibe-coded an aircraft AR tracking app and wasted weeks on AI bugs
    3 points by auspiv about 5 hours ago | 2 comments
19. 2025's Biggest Data Center Construction Stories: A Year in Review (www.datacenterknowledge.com)
    1 points by WaitWaitWha 1 day ago | discuss
20. Amazon buys stake in nuclear energy developer in push to power data centres (www.ft.com)
    139 points by JumpCrisscross about 1 year ago | 345 comments
21. Training AI models might not need enormous data centres (www.economist.com)
    90 points by jkuria 11 months ago | 57 comments
22. Life next to 199 data centres (www.bbc.com)
    67 points by easton about 2 months ago | 64 comments
23. Ireland's datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined (www.theguardian.com)
    52 points by nemoniac over 1 year ago | 56 comments
24. Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres' full water use secret (www.theguardian.com)
    49 points by __luca about 2 months ago | 17 comments
25. What'll happen if we spend nearly $3T on data centres no one needs? (www.ft.com)
    42 points by rwmj 5 months ago | 91 comments
26. Linux kernel could cut energy use in data centres by up to 30 per cent (cs.uwaterloo.ca)
    33 points by stefanhoelzl 11 months ago | 4 comments
27. American AI data centres may use as much energy as new US solar farms produce (www.ft.com)
    26 points by belter over 1 year ago | 18 comments
28. SiFive announces high performance RISC-V cores for Datacentres (www.sifive.com)
    26 points by fork-bomber over 1 year ago | 13 comments
29. Data centres will use twice as much energy by 2030 – driven by AI (www.nature.com)
    20 points by gnabgib 8 months ago | 9 comments
30. China bans foreign AI chips from state-funded data centres (www.reuters.com)
    17 points by gmays about 1 month ago | discuss
31. Anger mounts over environmental cost of Google datacentre in Uruguay (www.theguardian.com)
    16 points by racional over 1 year ago | 7 comments
32. UK government asks people to delete old emails to reduce data centres' water use (www.thejournal.ie)
    15 points by colinprince 4 months ago | 7 comments
33. Google orders small modular nuclear reactors for its data centres (www.ft.com)
    11 points by zer0tonin about 1 year ago | 13 comments
34. Power grab: the hidden costs of Ireland's datacentre boom (www.theguardian.com)
    11 points by mindracer almost 2 years ago | 7 comments
35. Big tech's new datacentres will take water from the driest areas (www.theguardian.com)
    11 points by n1b0m 8 months ago | 2 comments
36. Power-hungry data centres scrambling to find enough electricity to meet demand (www.abc.net.au)
    11 points by Brajeshwar over 1 year ago | discuss
37. Update to Linux kernel could cut energy use in data centres by up to 30% (cs.uwaterloo.ca)
    9 points by paulv 11 months ago | 1 comments
38. What'll happen if we spend nearly $3T on data centres no one needs? (www.ft.com)
    7 points by cmsefton 5 months ago | 2 comments
39. Google says UK risks being 'left behind' in AI race without more data centres (www.theguardian.com)
    6 points by marban about 1 year ago | 3 comments
40. Meta seeks $29B from private credit giants to fund AI data centres (www.ft.com)
    6 points by khurs 6 months ago | 2 comments
41. Big tech's new datacentres will take water from the driest areas (www.theguardian.com)
    6 points by exiguus 6 months ago | 1 comments
42. Big tech's new datacentres will take water from the driest areas (www.theguardian.com)
    5 points by billybuckwheat 8 months ago | 3 comments
43. Too hot to compute: data centres face rising heat and water risks (www.maplecroft.com)
    5 points by drydenwilliams 5 months ago | 1 comments
44. Microsoft Debuts Mass Timber Data Centres (datacentremagazine.com)
    5 points by belter about 1 year ago | 1 comments
45. China bans foreign AI chips from state-funded data centres (www.reuters.com)
    5 points by giuliomagnifico about 1 month ago | discuss
46. B.C. gov't proposes new power rules for AI, data centres (www.cbc.ca)
    5 points by Tiktaalik about 2 months ago | discuss
47. Cool data centres with treated sewage (www.bbc.com)
    5 points by 1659447091 6 months ago | discuss
48. Where are all the data centres and why should you care? (investigates.thejournal.ie)
    5 points by austinallegro 7 months ago | discuss
49. Mexico's datacentre industry is booming – as are droughts and blackouts (www.theguardian.com)
    5 points by rntn about 1 year ago | discuss