All articles by Lara Williams
Lara Williams
Lara Williams is managing editor of Verdict technology. An experienced writer, Lara previously worked as deputy editor of the Financial Times’s fDi Magazine. Lara has a background in technology journalism writing for the UK’s Computing magazine and has spent almost a decade living in Silicon Valley.
Are orbital data centres the answer to AI compute demand?
A strategic merger and an IPO are both milestones in Elon Musk’s ambition to build data centres in space. But how close are we to orbital data centres becoming viable?
What if building more grid capacity isn’t the answer? Solving ‘phantom compute’ could address data centre efficiency
Phantom compute is theoretical compute power that only exists in infrastructure plans but is effectively ‘phantom’ capacity in the real world, says Hitachi Vantara’s Simon Ninan.