Chris Stokel-Walker

Chris Stokel-Walker

Freelance Contributor

Chris Stokel-Walker is a Tom's Hardware contributor who focuses on the tech sector and its impact on our daily lives—online and offline. He is the author of How AI Ate the World, published in 2024, as well as TikTok Boom, YouTubers, and The History of the Internet in Byte-Sized Chunks. Alongside his reporting, he teaches journalism at Newcastle University, and holds a PhD in journalism. Chris has been a journalist for more than a decade, reporting for the world’s biggest publications. He frequently appears on the BBC, CNN, ABC, Times Radio, and others to explain the latest tech news. You can learn more about him at stokel-walker.com, and can send him tips via Signal, at stokel.01.

Articles by: Chris Stokel-Walker

AWS logo on a phone

The web's infrastructure has a concentration problem, exposing us all to crushing outages — from AWS and Azure to Cloudflare, the perils of having a centralized internet are being felt by all

By Chris Stokel-Walker published

Premium First it was AWS. Then Azure went down – and with it, large chunks of the web, apps and services we use every day. Are hypescaler cloud providers a victim of their own success?

Data Center

Massive AI data center buildouts are squeezing energy supplies — New energy methods are being explored as power demands are set to skyrocket

By Chris Stokel-Walker published

Premium A perfect storm of massive data centre buildout and new innovations in energy could materially change what our supplies look like in the future.

Intel HQ with logo and garden

The state of Intel: What the company's $5 billion deal with Nvidia could mean for the floundering chipmaker — Investments, capex, and the beating heart of x86

By Chris Stokel-Walker published

Premium An eye-watering and mind-boggling deal saw computer chips’ new king supplant what used to be the old name in town – but what does it all mean for Intel?

A dark render of a data center

How the AI revolution is triggering a hardware arms race and pushing up prices

By Chris Stokel-Walker published

Premium Tech giants and hyperscalers are paying billions to build out large data centers for AI, creating supply chain bottlenecks and intense competition for technological dominance.

China and the US chess board

The U.S. and China are engaged in a race over chip development — both countries are racing to build infrastructure

By Chris Stokel-Walker published

Premium Both superpowers are building up chip development capabilities while trying to reduce dependencies upon one another.

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