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SPONSORED: AI-Driven Upgrade of Communications Energy Storage Empowers a New Energy Ecosystem for Multiple Industries

AI datacenters have become a major driver of rising electricity consumption, but AI doesn't just happen in a datacenter. The telecommunications networks connecting datacenters to businesses and consumers are themselves major electricity consumers.

5G and its successors mean ever higher energy demands. Newer comms architectures deliver more bandwidth and richer services, but they also require denser cells, and 5G infrastructure such as multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antennas consumes more power than earlier equipment.

The International Energy Agency predicts total datacenter energy consumption will double between 2025 and 2030 to 950 TWh, representing three percent of global electricity demand, while AI datacenter consumption alone will triple over the same period.

Telecom industry electricity consumption is rising in parallel. The IEA put telecom network consumption at 260 to 360 TWh annually in 2022, up to 1.5 percent of global electricity use at the time, with mobile comms accounting for two thirds of the...

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Ancient ‘Who owns Linux?’ case now has one foot very deep in the grave

Appeals court upholds decision the case is dead, but Xinuos is trying for a long-shot re-hearing The long legal battle over ownership of Linux is closer than ever to ending, after a panel of three judges ruled a claim against IBM and Red Hat isn’t valid, and that time

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The US is now home to 15 of the world's 20 biggest AI data centers — with one state housing 12 on its own

* America now dominates the world's largest hyperscale data center markets by a wide margin * Northern Virginia remains enormous despite signs that future development is moving elsewhere * Texas recorded 71% capacity growth, far exceeding the worldwide increase of 36% The United States has tightened its grip on global hyperscale

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Filing: Shein will debut on the Hong Kong exchange on Sept. 1, seeking up to $1.8B in its IPO with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan as joint sponsors

Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &

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Enterprise AI agents are only as reliable as the messiest documents behind them

Enterprise AI has largely been built around context engineering. Teams connect enterprise systems, generate chunks and embeddings, build retrieval pipelines, and assemble the context needed by individual AI applications. While this approach works well for isolated assistants and copilots, it treats enterprise knowledge as application-specific context rather than a shared

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Ancient ‘Who owns Linux?’ case now has one foot very deep in the grave

The US is now home to 15 of the world's 20 biggest AI data centers &mdash; with one state housing 12 on its own

Filing: Shein will debut on the Hong Kong exchange on Sept. 1, seeking up to $1.8B in its IPO with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan as joint sponsors

Enterprise AI agents are only as reliable as the messiest documents behind them

The US is now home to 15 of the world's 20 biggest AI data centers — with one state housing 12 on its own