data center economics

The industry needs a clean, auditable, vendor‑neutral way to compare the real cost of running generative AI in production — not just raw token throughput or peak teraflops, but price/performance at system scale including power, amortized hardware cost, and usable, reproducible workloads — and...

Microsoft’s plan to add 15 data‑center buildings on land once promised to Foxconn has thrust Wisconsin’s electric rates, grid planning and tax policy into the center of a national debate about who pays for the power behind the AI boom — and whether communities that seed that growth will end up...