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Amazon’s Newest Gambit: Selling AI Chips
The world’s largest hyperscaler wants to seize the semiconductor moment by selling AI accelerators at scale. The post Amazon’s Newest Gambit: Selling AI Chips appeared first on EE Times.
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3 Amazon Workers Say They’re Under Investigation for Speaking Out About Data Centers
The software engineers filed a complaint with Seattle’s civil rights office accusing Amazon of illegally retaliating against them for expressing their personal political beliefs.
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Amazon employees say they’re facing termination for backing data center limits
When three Amazon software engineers testified earlier this month at Seattle City Council hearings about data centers, they started their testimony by citing a city law barring employment discrimination over political speech. Now, they're accusing their employer of breaking that…
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Entrepreneurs in Nairobi make the case for going solar
Most of Kenya’s power grid runs on renewables. But with 25% of communities lacking centralized electricity, the nation is looking to off-grid solar to hit its goal of delivering universal electricity access by 2030 without driving up emissions. The ever-improving…
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EE Times Magazine – June 2026
The June 2026 edition of EE Times Magazine explores autonomous aerospace and defense systems—from orbital data centers to AI-enabled drones. The post EE Times Magazine – June 2026 appeared first on EE Times.
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Want to get a data center online quickly? Give it some flex.
At the end of a tense and scoreless first half of a soccer match between the English men’s team and rival Germany, millions of Brits let out a collective sigh and did what they so often do in moments of…
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GlobalFoundries: First Chipmaker to Support Open Standard for AI Scale Up
GlobalFoundries leads with the first silicon to support OCI MSA, shaking up AI data centers. The post GlobalFoundries: First Chipmaker to Support Open Standard for AI Scale Up appeared first on EE Times.
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China Didn’t Make Americans Hate Data Centers
GOP lawmakers, tech investors, and even OpenAI have tied the anti-data-center movement in the US to Chinese interference. Experts say it’s much more complicated than that.
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Amazon’s data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year
Just after Seattle enacted a one-year data center moratorium that some of Amazon's own employees pushed for, Amazon shared how much water its data centers use, reportedly for the first time. With concerns about water consumption and energy use a…