--- title: "Data centers - compute — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/data_centers as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Data centers - compute (💡 Concepts) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › Data centers - compute Data centers - compute is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 10 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 5 points higher than 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources. Its last hype episode in the 30-day window ran from Sep 21 to Sep 24 (peak 46 on Sep 24). Data centers and compute for AI: gigawatts, Stargate, energy, and local pushback against new facilities. First seen on Wikipedia · Sep 13 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days. Why this stage: within the normal range across monitored sources. - **Stage:** 💤 Quiet — within the normal range across the monitored sources - **Hype score:** 9.9 / 100 · −0.5 in 1 day · +4.6 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 45.5 on Sep 24, 2026 - **Category:** 💡 Concepts - **Sources above normal:** 1 of 25 scoring it (1 independent family) - **Stories in 7 days:** 423 - **Share of voice:** 1% of the radar’s attention in 7 days ## Where the attention comes from “Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0. | Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Cerebral Valley (AI events) | events | 9 (Sep 26) | 3 | 2.5× | yes | 100% | | Luma (SF AI events) | events | 4 (Sep 26) | 3 | 1.2× | no | 0% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Hacker News | mentions | 2 | 2 | 1× | no | 0% | | Hugging Face Daily Papers | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) | frontpage hours | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [Mike Johnson says opposition to data centers "is a Chinese psyop. I really believe that. That's not a conspiracy theory."](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mwlls4c7l72g) — Bluesky · Sep 28 · score 1,970 · 715 comments 2. [Google launching TPUs in space NEXT WEEK on SpaceX falcon 9 to test AI data centers orbit](https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1wpo70u/) — Reddit (r/singularity) · Sep 25 · score 562 · 247 comments 3. [data center](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=data+center&geo=US&date=now%207-d) — Google Trends (Trending now) (Google Trends US) · Sep 28 · score 1,000 4. [When I drive a car without a valid driver's license, proof of insurance or tag/license plate, I get stopped by the police, my car will be towed and I can either walk home or might end up in jail and…](https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/117336917463982274) — Mastodon (fediverse) (social.wildeboer.net) · Sep 26 · score 774 · 17 comments 5. [Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49830037) — Hacker News (bloomberg.com) · Sep 24 · score 151 · 151 comments 6. [Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49830037) — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (bloomberg.com) · Sep 24 · score 144 · 139 comments 7. [The Chinese AI Infrastructure Boom: Introducing the SemiAnalysis China Datacenter Model](https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/the-chinese-ai-infrastructure-boom) — AI newsletters (RSS) (SemiAnalysis) · Sep 25 · score 126 · 0 comments 8. [Hundreds of people attended a pro-AI party in DC on September 26, in what the organizers called a counterprogram to the “bipartisan psychosis” over data centers](https://www.techmeme.com/260928/p5#a260928p5) — Techmeme (The Washington Sun) · Sep 28 · score 2 · 30 comments 9. [Photonics: Computing at the Future of Light!](https://luma.com/sfsociety-photonics) — Luma (SF AI events) (SF Societies & Social Clubs - Private Invitations) · score 17 10. [How European Startups Are Cutting AI Data Center Energy Demand](https://dev.to/alifar/how-european-startups-are-cutting-ai-data-center-energy-demand-52el) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 25 · score 6 · 0 comments 11. [profjacques/server\_datacenter\_admin: material para a matéria de Server and Data Center Administration](https://github.com/profjacques/server_datacenter_admin) — GitHub (profjacques) · Sep 22 · score 1 12. [Can AI make data centers more water- and energy-efficient?](https://community.openai.com/t/can-ai-make-data-centers-more-water-and-energy-efficient/1400117) — Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) (OpenAI Developer Community) · Sep 23 · score 1 · 0 comments ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 276 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes): - [Policy & macro](https://abovethefog.app/themes/policy_macro.md) — 75% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 57% of its stories - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 11% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 3.3% of its stories - [SF scene](https://abovethefog.app/themes/sf_scene.md) — 2.5% of its stories - Other AI — 2.5% of its stories ## Related topics - **Related to:** [AI bubble - capex](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_bubble.md), [Nvidia](https://abovethefog.app/topics/nvidia.md) - **Mentioned with:** [SpaceXAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/spacexai.md) (20 stories), [AI regulation](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_regulation.md) (17 stories), [AI slowdown](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_slowdown.md) (15 stories), [SF AI scene](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sf_ai_scene.md) (8 stories), [World models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/world_models.md) (3 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 9.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 10.4 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 25, 2026 | 6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 24, 2026 | 45.5 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 23, 2026 | 10.8 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 22, 2026 | 29.4 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 21, 2026 | 26 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 20, 2026 | 5.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 16 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 18, 2026 | 34.7 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 17, 2026 | 32.7 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 16, 2026 | 18.9 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 15, 2026 | 29.4 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 14, 2026 | 23.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 13, 2026 | 13.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 12, 2026 | 24 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 11, 2026 | 23.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 10, 2026 | 20 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 14.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 21.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 16.6 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 6, 2026 | 15.9 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 5, 2026 | 17.3 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 4, 2026 | 19.7 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 3, 2026 | 29.2 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 2, 2026 | 4.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 13.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 3.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 0.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 2.7 | 💤 Quiet | [Open Data centers - compute in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=data_centers) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/data_centers) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)