Microsoft’s announcement that it is building what it calls the world’s most powerful AI datacenter in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin — a megasite branded Fairwater — marks a decisive escalation in the physical infrastructure race underpinning the generative AI era. The facility, part of a newly...
The race to build the world’s most powerful AI infrastructure has moved out of labs and into entire campuses, and Microsoft’s new Fairwater facility in Wisconsin is the clearest expression yet of that shift — a purpose-built AI factory that stitches together hundreds of thousands of...
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Fusion power has always captivated the human imagination, promising not only an almost limitless source of energy but also a future free from carbon emissions. Today, one of the world’s most ambitious projects—ITER—stands at the forefront of this promise. Under construction in the scrubby...