Recent SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, SSMS 22 and Fabric announcements highlight new event streaming and vector search capabilities, plus expanding monitoring and ontology tooling -- with tradeoffs in ...

Microsoft's Data API Builder is designed to help developers expose database objects through REST and GraphQL without building a full data access layer from scratch. In this Q&A, Steve Jones previews ...

Modern businesses run on data. Companies regularly capture, store and analyze large amounts of quantitative and qualitative data on consumer behavior, to which they can apply predictive analytics to ...

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming ...

Amazon’s $20B Pennsylvania Data Center Expansion: ‘Thousands of Good-Paying Jobs’ Expected Your email has been sent Amazon is investing $20B in Pennsylvania to build AI and cloud data centers, ...

While data centers that power artificial intelligence have received a lot of attention for their massive energy use, one often overlooked impact has been the amount of water they consume. One group ...

Data centres built to power AIs produce so much heat that they can raise the surface temperature of the land around them by several degrees – creating so-called data centre heat islands that may ...