The rise of artificial intelligence is requiring faster and bigger computations for even simple tests. Then for say a Google search. It's adding to the demand for more internet data centers, the ...

When you read this story, or send an email or transfer money from your bank account online, you're relying on data centers scattered around the world. And that computing power has a big environmental ...

To fulfill the promise of big data, you need to abstract data from its underpinnings -- at both the data and infrastructure layers Big data in the cloud has so many potential functional service layers ...

AMES, Iowa – The answers to some of the challenges businesses face can be found in the volumes of data many corporations collect. The problem is much of that data is messy and requires employees with ...

We are now creating more data in every two days than was created from the dawn of civilization all the way up to 2003 (a figure in the area of five exabytes or 5 trillion megabytes). This has led to a ...

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 ...