News / #hardware Tag Hardware 500 articles archived under #hardware · RSS Sign in to follow Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 10d ago Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage Article URL: https://www.1011now.com/2026/09/30/more-questions-than-answers-about-lincolns-google-data-center-water-electricity-usage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49957068 Points: 395 # Comments: 516 18 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 10d ago A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE Article URL: https://wieslawsoltes.github.io/VB6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956681 Points: 239 # Comments: 74 13 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 11d ago Amazon responds to data center backlash, says it no longer uses NDAs The CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers. 23 r/LocalLLaMA community 11d ago I built a code knowledge graph tool that's actually MIT licensed (fully local, no cloud) So this is maybe a niche problem, but at my job I work on a huge Python codebase and every time I change some shared function I'm basically playing roulette. grep tells who mentions it in the code base, not who actually calls it. And more essentially, Claude Code (my major… 15 arXiv — Machine Learning research 11d ago STCFormer: Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Modeling with Dynamic Cluster Transformer for Station-based Weather Forecasting arXiv:2610.00377v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Station-based weather forecasting supports daily life and economic activity, yet accurate forecasts require modeling complex spatial dependencies among stations. Recent clustering-based selective modeling offers a promising… 38 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 12d ago Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution. 23 The Information — AI news-outlet 12d ago AI Data Center Debt Is Showing Up Everywhere Debt financing for data centers and related infrastructure has grown rapidly enough that it’s become its own category these days—credit analysts are breaking out AI versus non–AI-linked debt across markets to analyze new issuance and performance. Several asset managers in recent… 7 r/LocalLLaMA community 12d ago RTX Spark laptops and mini desktops rumored to launch Oct 7th (24GB to 128GB variants possibly) Basically a DGX Spark minus the ConnectX-7 ports. I’ve seen expected initial pricing from like $1800 to $2900. Not sure what configurations are actually at those price points. It’s all Internet hearsay until we actually see these things ship, but it’s nice to know that it’s… 30 The Information — AI news-outlet 12d ago Amazon Pledges To Give Up NDAs, Give Back $1 Billion To Communities In Data-Center Buildout Amazon Web Services pledged to spend $1 billion over the next five years upgrading heat and water systems in schools, homes and other municipal buildings, among other projects, as part of an effort to win over local communities who fear data centers. AWS also promised to stop… 4 r/LocalLLaMA community 12d ago Two 96 GB Ascend cards crun Qwen3.8-flash-next hardware notes, vLLM work, benchmarks, and what is next I have been building a somewhat unusual local inference machine around two Huawei Atlas 300I Duo cards. They are relatively inexpensive, passive, dual-accelerator PCIe cards with 96 GB of device memory apiece. They are also absolutely not drop-in CUDA replacements. When I first… 36 arXiv — Machine Learning research 12d ago The Advantages of Fresh Sketching for Ridge Regression arXiv:2609.38565v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Over the past 25 years, sketching and sampling have become widely used tools for accelerating large-scale regression. In iterative randomized solvers, a basic design choice is whether to $\textit{reuse}$ the same sketch or draw… 17 r/LocalLLaMA community 12d ago Update on the “Monstrosity”. 6 BC-250 board cluster This is 6 bc-250 ex mining boards with 5 in the asrock 4u12g case they came in. After a lot of testing my current preferred setup is 4 boards running Qwen Next Flash IQ2_XS at 100k context with around 28 tok/s for short generation and 24 tok/s at 50k with around 115 ppt. The… 15 r/LocalLLaMA community 13d ago DDR4/PCIe4 vs DDR5/PCIe5 for LLMs- I benchmarked them for pre-training. What are your thoughts? Hello everyone. I've recently ran some experiments comparing DDR4/PCIe4 and DDR5/PCIe5 for AI workstations on a pre-training run, and would like to hear yours thoughts. First of all, and as a summary of my results ( code here:… 8 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 13d ago Google thinks SpaceX’s Starship has to launch 1,600 times before space data centers get off the ground Google launched its first advanced chip into orbit to pave the way for space data centers. 30 r/LocalLLaMA community 13d ago Update #2: Post training yandex/AliceAI-80B-A3B [instruct!] from scratch Last update: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wu9ksu/update_yandexaliceai_80ba3b_fine_tune_progress/ - basically, an instruct fine tune on the base model using a synthetic distilled data set. I've been posting regular updates so I imagine at least a few people have… 11 The Information — AI news-outlet 13d ago Data Center Infra Provider Accelevation Sinks In Post-IPO Trading Data center infrastructure provider Accelevation’s shares were trading down roughly 5% on Thursday morning, as the stock continued to sink following its initial public offering earlier this week. The company on Sept. 29 raised $540 million, moving ahead with the offering even as… 7 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 13d ago Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/technology/meta-ai-data-centers-taxes.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49921118 Points: 218 # Comments: 168 18 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 13d ago Fairness Beyond a Single Run: Training-Seed Variability in Speech LLM Adaptation arXiv:2609.38976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Demographic fairness gaps in automatic speech recognition are almost always reported from a single training run. We fine-tune the Q-former projector and LoRA adapters of a speech LLM at five audio compression factors and six random… 21 The Information — AI news-outlet 14d ago Banks Including SocGen, MUFG Pull Back From Data Center Loan Deals Some of the largest lenders to the artificial intelligence build out are becoming more choosy about the deals they take on as market volatility and rising yields give lenders reasons to choose safer deals over more speculative ones. Lenders including Société Générale, Sumitomo… 15 The Information — AI news-outlet 14d ago How New Data Center Debt Concessions Could Stall AI Build-Outs Bond markets are getting tough for lower-rated borrowers. One example: CleanSpark, which is developing a data center for Meta Platforms, had to offer investors big concessions to land financing earlier this month. That deal is among the clearest signs yet that financing the data… 32 arXiv — Machine Learning research 14d ago GEM-KMeans: Memory-Efficient and Accurate Clustering on Massive Scale with GPU Optimization arXiv:2609.36074v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Memory-efficient scaling on clustering problems without sacrificing statistical accuracy is of central interest for large-scale data analysis and machine learning problems. Nonnegative low-rank (NLR) matrix factorization for… 17 arXiv — Machine Learning research 14d ago BASE: Batch-Aware Selection of Experts Using Predicted Removal Error for Efficient MoE Decoding arXiv:2609.36222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly expensive to serve. In large-scale serving systems, autoregressive decoding is often bottlenecked by transferring model weights from accelerator high-bandwidth memory into on-chip SRAM.… 10 arXiv — Machine Learning research 14d ago Fisher-IRG: Fisher-Induced Local Invariant Representation Geometry across Language and Vision Models arXiv:2609.36458v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semantic-preserving transformations can induce substantial motion in learned representations, while small changes may strongly affect model predictions, raising a basic question: what local metric best captures semantically… 29 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 14d ago Look What You Made Us Cluster: Hate Narrative Extraction from Reddit Discourse arXiv:2609.37408v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Narrative extraction allows us to identify online hate narratives, supporting the construction of rigorous detection systems. Existing computational approaches, however, are limited in precision as they rely on semantic… 8 r/MachineLearning community 15d ago Some thoughts about the compute obsession no one talks about [D] Using a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I'm going to say something uncomfortable. A massive portion of our field has stopped caring about algorithmic efficiency and instead decided that if it doesn't run on a massive cluster it's not worth doing. This year feels like we… 8 The Information — AI news-outlet 15d ago How Investors Are Financing On-Site Power to Break AI Bottlenecks Companies building and operating data centers are hungry for ways to secure the power needed to move ahead with massive AI build-outs. That’s prompted big financing pledges and creative dealmaking for on-site power that can cut data centers’ reliance on electric grids. Investors… 33 r/LocalLLaMA community 15d ago Help me find a good stack for reversing an old online game client Hi, so I was working on building a local server for an older online game client a few years ago, and the amount of data I had to synthesize was intense. I ended up shelving the project. I had managed to build a basic login server, sorted out some crypt stuff, but it was just way… 5 The Information — AI news-outlet 15d ago How Nscale’s Unbuilt Data Centers Undercut Its $35 Billion IPO Pitch AI chip rental business Nscale, which has filed paperwork indicating its plan to go public, is a puny, relatively new entrant in the neocloud race. At first blush, it looks to hold a lot of promise, posting rapid growth in the past year and boasting a backlog of contracted… 37 r/MachineLearning community 15d ago I wrote a free, open-source book on making ML models actually fast, from silicon to agents [P] I’ve spent the last few months writing something I wish I had when I started working on ML performance engineering. It’s called How to Make Your Model Fast: A Systems View of Efficient Machine Learning, from Silicon to Agents . The basic idea is that reducing FLOPs doesn’t… 35 r/LocalLLaMA community 15d ago Do you need some extra memory on your DGX Spark? ​ I created this repo to help the DGX Spark users that have a spare 10-24 GB GPU at home to squeeze some extra memory out of a single Spark or a Sparks cluster. It moves the spec-decode draft model off your Sparks onto that GPU: the freed GB of memory can be used for… 28 arXiv — Machine Learning research 15d ago Robust Graph Clustering Network for Multiple Missing Data arXiv:2609.31033v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clustering on graphs where both node attributes and structural links are partially missing remains a challenging task. Existing methods typically rely on imputation-then-clustering on single-view missingness incomplete graphs,… 7 r/LocalLLaMA community 15d ago 3D/2D Text Visualisation Like everyone, I use 3js for data visualisation. But while semantic clusters are interesting, they don't confer much practical information alone. So I did something very simple: a query spatially re-assembles the nodes, and you can switch them to text. Honestly, it's hard to… 33 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 16d ago The AI boom took over Climate Week and not everyone is happy about it Just like the rest of the U.S., data centers and AI are dividing climate tech founders and investors. 13 The Information — AI news-outlet 16d ago Why AI's $15 Trillion Buildout Is Rewriting the Rules of Data Center Financing The unprecedented scale of capital and resources dedicated to the AI buildout is breaking the mold of how data centers get financed and constructed. It’s also raising new questions about how investors assess their risk, as new data and my interviews over the last week showed. At… 15 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 16d ago Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs “Microsoft claims to want to be a good neighbor, but the jury is still out." 26 r/MachineLearning community 16d ago Are there any good research papers around Text clustering using LLMs [R] Hi, same as the title, I am currently trying to begin with some research on clustering using LLMs. So my requirement is as follows: I will be given some 100 document files, the end goal is to have clusters in such a way that documents with similar procedures or content should be… 10 r/LocalLLaMA community 18d ago 85 GB DeepSeek-V4-Flash at ~3 tok/s on a 12 GB RTX 3060 + 64 GB DDR5 RAM - Overspill for FreeToken, inspired by Colibri I've been experimenting with ways to run MoE models that don't fit comfortably in RAM, and I ended up making Overspill, a disk tier for FreeToken . The basic idea came from looking at how Colibri handles experts across disk/RAM/VRAM so I took inspiration from the general… 11 r/MachineLearning community 18d ago LLMs were told they could lie in Diplomacy. Here's who actually kept their promises. [D] the stats are from the game of diplomacy. diplomacy is basically a strategy game where you negotiate, form alliances, betray, and outmaneuver other players to expand your influence. the games were played in multi-agent simulations, with different LLMs playing against each other… 25 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 18d ago Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said its new stationary power plants were no longer in Crusoe's near-term plans. 35 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 19d ago Ahead of US IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing The funding, which comes from Third Point, Nvidia, and others, will fuel the company's massive AI data center buildout. 9 arXiv — Machine Learning research 19d ago The Impossible Trinity of Time-Series Validation: A Conservation Law among Training Sufficiency, Test Coverage, and Temporal Causality arXiv:2609.29530v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Validating a model on a time series asks for three things at once: each training run should use most of the sample (sufficiency), the test sets should together cover most of the sample (coverage), and training data should come… 5 arXiv — Machine Learning research 19d ago A Manifold-Aware Topic Modeling Approach via Rank-Based Prototypes arXiv:2609.29630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent topic models leverage pretrained embeddings, but neural architectures produce latent representations without grounding in specific texts, and clustering-based pipelines assign representative documents only post hoc, relying… 14 arXiv — Machine Learning research 19d ago From Graphs to Feeders: Constraint-Guided Diffusion for Rule-Compliant Feeder Generation arXiv:2609.29879v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative modeling approaches often focus on recovering broad statistical characteristics from the training data. In the context of graph generation, this may refer to degree distributions, clustering coefficients, or spectral… 28 r/LocalLLaMA community 20d ago I'm new and it's kinda overwhelming to get into Hi, sorry if this doesn't belong here. Getting to the point basically, I've been using online-only AI like GPT/Gemini since 2022, and have been interested in local models but am clueless overall. Yes I'm extremely late. I only use laptop (I'm a student), and I currently own:… 38 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 20d ago New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators Million-dollar fines won’t end billionaires’ data center pollution, neighbors fear. 14 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 20d ago Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center The notice would allow Oracle to delay payments should the facility miss its 2028 target to come online. 13 The Information — AI news-outlet 20d ago Former OpenAI Data Center Chief Is Now At Nvidia Chris Malone, OpenAI’s former head of data centers, joined Nvidia as the vice president of Nvidia’s DSX Platform this month, according to his LinkedIn profile. DSX is the Nvidia division that helps customers design and build AI data centers according to Nvidia’s specifications.… 4 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 20d ago Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1 Google's experimental orbital data center will have four TPUs and only run for 15 minutes at a time. 21 The Information — AI news-outlet 20d ago Oracle Invokes Force Majeure in Aim to Protect Itself From Data Center Cost Overruns Oracle, which is set to lease a New Mexico data center on behalf of OpenAI, sent a notice to the project’s developer asserting its contractual rights to withhold payments if project delays persist, according to Bloomberg . Oracle sent a notice that cited “force majeure” to a… 11 The Information — AI news-outlet 20d ago Are GPU Loans Safe From Rising Rates? The Federal Reserve’s recent rate hike, and rising expectations of another soon, put a fresh spotlight on financing arrangements for the wide array of companies borrowing money to pay for AI data centers and chips. Rates are rising just as investors have been growing more… 5 Page 2 of 10 · 500 articles ← Newer Older →
