In a nutshell, big data is a term that was coined to describe a rapidly changing growth in the accessibility of structured as well as unstructured data, usually within a business. Big data has come ...

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Genomic data is growing at an unprecedented rate. Two decades ago, sequencing the first human genome was a landmark achievement, generating around 200 gigabytes of data — an amount now easily handled ...

Microsoft is trying to win over communities concerned about AI data centers. The company's president, Brad Smith, is meeting ...

Reducing energy consumption is a major concern for politicians in both the US and Europe, and Big Data has a huge role to play in this process. Despite these advances, however, there remain two ...

Google recently courted the township of Franklin, Ind., so that it could construct a giant campus to house the computer hardware that powers its internet business. But the company needed to rezone ...

Yesterday I attended GE’s Minds + Machines Industrial Internet Conference in Chicago. The day-long event brought together GE customers from across a variety of industries together to learn about the ...

Fueled by a boom in artificial intelligence and the nation’s insatiable demand for cloud computing, Michigan is plunging into an era of massive data centers. Across the state, developers are pitching ...

Opponents of the proposed data center near Glen Rose plan to attend a Hood County commissioners meeting Tuesday, Jan. 13.

Fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded. Experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think. When I called him to talk more about AI and water, Masley emphasized that he’s ...

Perhaps nobody embodies artificial intelligence mania quite like Jensen Huang, the chief executive of chip behemoth Nvidia, which has seen its value spike 300% in the last two years. A frothy time for ...