Infrastructure

Data centers, networks, and the physical plumbing the internet actually runs on.

Bundles of blue network cables running into a rack of switches

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The data center boom reaches Hillsboro, OR.

Data centers are arriving west of Portland, and they run on water and electricity from the same system everyone else uses. What the boom means for the people who live nearby.

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I Can’t Let You Save That, Dave: The AI Hard Drive Hostage Crisis

AI data centers bought up so much storage that hard drive and SSD prices climbed hard. Why a 2 TB SSD went from $159 to around $575, and what to do before your next upgrade.