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fromWIRED
6 hours ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI's Blockbuster AMD Deal Is a Bet on Near-Limitless Demand for AI

fromTechCrunch
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

The billion-dollar infrastructure deals powering the AI boom | TechCrunch

Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
1 week ago

What's behind the massive AI data center headlines? | TechCrunch

Silicon Valley is pouring massive investment into AI infrastructure to give OpenAI sufficient server capacity to train and serve future ChatGPT features like Pulse.
Artificial intelligence
fromComputerWeekly.com
1 week ago

AI infrastucture provider Nscale secures $1.1bn in series B funding | Computer Weekly

Nscale raised $1.1bn to accelerate deployment of large-scale AI infrastructure across Europe, North America and the Middle East and build the UK's largest GPU supercomputer.
fromWIRED
6 hours ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI's Blockbuster AMD Deal Is a Bet on Near-Limitless Demand for AI

fromTechCrunch
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

The billion-dollar infrastructure deals powering the AI boom | TechCrunch

#openai
fromZDNET
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI accelerates Project Stargate with 5 new AI data centers across the US

fromThe Verge
3 weeks ago
Tech industry

OpenAI reportedly signs $300 billion Project Stargate cloud deal with Oracle

OpenAI will buy about $300 billion of Oracle computing power over roughly five years, alongside data-center and chip deals driving Oracle's cloud revenue surge.
from24/7 Wall St.
4 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI To Burn $115 Billion-That's All?

OpenAI is projected to burn $115 billion by 2029, likely raising equity while rivals Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon invest substantially more in AI infrastructure.
fromZDNET
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI accelerates Project Stargate with 5 new AI data centers across the US

#ai-bubble
fromFuturism
1 day ago
Artificial intelligence

Sam Altman Warns That AI Industry Is Due for a Spectacular Implosion

Casual warnings about AI bubbles coexist with massive AI investment that risks triggering an economy-wide collapse if the bubble bursts.
fromFast Company
2 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

There isn't an AI bubble-there are three

AI shows multiple concurrent bubbles, notably a speculative asset bubble with sky-high valuations and an infrastructure bubble driven by massive capacity investments.
fromFuturism
1 day ago
Artificial intelligence

Sam Altman Warns That AI Industry Is Due for a Spectacular Implosion

Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
2 days ago

AI Data Centers Are Skyrocketing Regular People's Energy Bills

Data center expansion is driving sharply higher wholesale electricity prices near facilities, transferring rising grid costs onto local consumers and increasing climate impacts.
#ai-energy-consumption
#artificial-intelligence
US politics
fromSFGATE
3 weeks ago

5 Key Takeaways from Trump's Promise to Tech Billionaires: Permits for Data Centers

President Trump pledged federal help to secure electricity for AI data centers, potentially raising residential utility costs and affecting homeowners.
fromSFGATE
3 weeks ago
US politics

5 Key Takeaways from Trump's Promise to Tech Billionaires: Permits for Data Centers

Venture
fromTechzine Global
3 days ago

OpenAI valued at $500 billion after $6.6 billion share sale

OpenAI raised $6.6 billion in a secondary share sale, reaching a $500 billion valuation while expanding global data-center and semiconductor partnerships, including South Korea.
#ai-compute
fromFast Company
4 days ago
Artificial intelligence

Who controls the machines that control Artificial Intelligence?

Rapidly scaling, energy-intensive AI compute clusters create an exponential resource moat that concentrates leading-edge model capabilities among organizations that can afford and power them.
fromTechCrunch
5 days ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI ropes in Samsung, SK Hynix to source memory chips for Stargate | TechCrunch

OpenAI secured agreements with Samsung and SK Hynix to produce up to 900,000 HBM DRAM chips monthly and build AI data centers in South Korea.
fromTechCrunch
5 days ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI ropes in Samsung, SK Hynix to source memory chips for Stargate | TechCrunch

fromThe Mercury News
4 days ago

Data centers' huge appetite for power concerns South Bay youth

My concern is that not all of the energy that they're using for data centers is renewable, which will undercut the city's own climate commitments,
Environment
Real estate
fromwww.mercurynews.com
5 days ago

San Jose site in area where Microsoft plans data centers is bought

An affiliate of Goodman Group purchased 46.8 acres in north San Jose for $200 million adjacent to sites Microsoft previously bought for proposed data centers.
Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
6 days ago

'AI for America' wants to be a New Deal for workers and communities. But it needs teeth

AI-driven pursuit of superintelligence and data-center expansion is transforming workplaces, creating competitive advantages, and requiring regulation and worker reskilling.
#ai-investment
fromForbes
6 days ago
Artificial intelligence

Many Believe The AI Bubble Will Burst, Effecting Electric Utilities

fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Mark Zuckerberg says he'd rather risk 'misspending a couple of hundred billion' than be late to superintelligence

fromFortune
2 weeks ago
US politics

Big Tech companies pledge $42 billion in U.K. investments as U.S. President Donald Trump begins state visit | Fortune

fromForbes
6 days ago
Artificial intelligence

Many Believe The AI Bubble Will Burst, Effecting Electric Utilities

fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Mark Zuckerberg says he'd rather risk 'misspending a couple of hundred billion' than be late to superintelligence

fromFortune
2 weeks ago
US politics

Big Tech companies pledge $42 billion in U.K. investments as U.S. President Donald Trump begins state visit | Fortune

#energy-policy
#energy-infrastructure
fromFast Company
1 week ago
Environment

Meta's massive Louisiana data center needs a $3 billion power upgrade. Who should foot the bill?

fromFast Company
1 week ago
Environment

Meta's massive Louisiana data center needs a $3 billion power upgrade. Who should foot the bill?

Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
1 week ago

Ford CEO warns there's a dearth of blue-collar workers able to construct AI data centers and operate factories: 'Nothing to backfill the ambition' | Fortune

U.S. AI ambitions are threatened by a severe shortage of skilled blue-collar workers needed for data centers, manufacturing, and related infrastructure.
fromFuturism
1 week ago

Residents Shut Down Google Data Center Before It Can Be Built

The tech behemoth was planning to rezone the acreage for the data center, but then withdrew the plans at a raucous Monday meeting where the Indianapolis City Council was expected to vote on whether to approve the rezoning, according to NPR affiliate WFYI. Cheers reportedly broke out among the overflowing crowd when attorneys from Google said they were pulling out.
US politics
#utilities
#nvidia
Artificial intelligence
fromIT Pro
1 week ago

September rundown: The UK becomes an AI playground

Large US tech investments, including Nvidia's GPU commitments, will accelerate the UK's AI growth but require expanded power, data center capacity, and localized infrastructure.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.nytimes.com
1 week ago

Video: Opinion | A.I.'s Environmental Impact Will Threaten Its Own Supply Chain

A.I.'s growth consumes vast energy, water and rare minerals, scarring landscapes and creating supply-chain vulnerabilities that threaten its own infrastructure.
Science
fromThe Verge
1 week ago

Microsoft says this new cooling method could enable more powerful chips and efficient data centers

Microfluidic cooling—delivering liquid coolant directly into silicon—can remove heat up to three times more effectively, potentially reducing data center energy use and enabling powerful chips.
Environment
fromFast Company
1 week ago

Why tech companies should help pay for solar on your roof

Tech data centers could meet rising electricity demand by funding residential rooftop solar, battery storage, and heat-pump upgrades instead of building new power plants.
fromLos Angeles Times
1 week ago

Amid a data center boom, California lawmakers pass a bill to track water use

Companies that run data centers are facing increasing scrutiny for guzzling water in the dry western U.S. as artificial intelligence fuels a boom in the industry. California legislators passed a bill this month that would require the facilities to report their projected water use before they begin operating and thereafter certify how much they use annually. The bill is now awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom's signature.
California
US politics
fromFortune
2 weeks ago

Pennsylvania threatens to go 'own way' if grid won't change | Fortune

Pennsylvania will exit the PJM power grid unless PJM reforms to lower surging wholesale electricity costs and give states greater decision-making, transparency, and accountability.
#meta
fromWIRED
2 weeks ago
Silicon Valley

Louisiana Hands Meta a Tax Break and Power for Its Biggest Data Center

fromWIRED
2 weeks ago
Silicon Valley

Louisiana Hands Meta a Tax Break and Power for Its Biggest Data Center

fromTruthout
2 weeks ago

Big Tech Data Centers Compound Decades of Environmental Racism in the South

At a recent televised dinner at the White House, Big Tech executives profusely thanked Donald Trump for unleashing "American innovation," while the president, in turn, praised Big Tech for "investing billions in the country." This orchestration of Big Tech executives kissing the ring was more than a display of how tech oligarchy has become the new normal. It was a dramatized, Gilded Age-type demonstration of Trump's AI Action Plan, which grants Big Tech the unfettered ability to expand AI infrastructure.
US politics
fromTelecompetitor
2 weeks ago

FirstLight Completes 280-Mile AI-Ready Fiber Network Across Pennsylvania

Network proximity is everything as Pennsylvania's data center and AI corridors scale,
Business
from24/7 Wall St.
2 weeks ago

Peak Oil, Are You Kidding Me? Buy Energy Stocks Now

Rising AI-driven electricity demand may delay a demand peak for oil and coal and require massive new power capacity, including multiple nuclear reactors.
Business
from24/7 Wall St.
2 weeks ago

Is $50 a Share Realistic for IREN Stock?

IREN Ltd. stock surged over 277% YTD in 2025 driven by Bitcoin mining revenue and strong quarterly revenue growth, despite a high P/E valuation.
Venture
fromTelecompetitor
2 weeks ago

Blue Owl Capital Takes Majority Interest in Gigabit Fiber

Blue Owl Capital made a majority investment in Gigabit Fiber to expand and deepen its fiber network serving hyperscale data centers and AI/cloud use cases across Texas and New Mexico.
#ai
fromAxios
2 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Exclusive: "Massive ten-year" AI boom is just starting, AMD CEO says

fromFortune
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Tech stocks head south as investors see that growth in AI is not limitless

fromAxios
2 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Exclusive: "Massive ten-year" AI boom is just starting, AMD CEO says

fromFortune
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Tech stocks head south as investors see that growth in AI is not limitless

US news
fromHigh Country News
3 weeks ago

Resistance to data centers rises on the border - High Country News

A proposed $165 billion Project Jupiter data-center campus near Sunland Park/Santa Teresa promises hundreds of jobs and infrastructure investment while targeting AI and web services.
fromBusiness Insider
3 weeks ago

US data center construction spending reaches record-breaking high

Data center construction spend in the US hit a record high of $40 billion a year in June, Bank of America Global Research said in a new report issued this month. The report cited data from the US Census Bureau and noted that the new spending level is a 28% increase from the previous year. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta are leading the charge with sweeping expansion plans that could total more than $1 trillion in capital expenditures over the next few years.
Tech industry
Science
fromAxios
4 weeks ago

What AC, AI and Vegas' Sphere tell us about energy

Rapid global energy demand is driven by soaring air-conditioning sales, growing AI data-center power needs measured in megawatts, and large-scale entertainment venues like the Sphere.
fromFortune
1 month ago

Deutsche Bank on 'the summer AI turned ugly': 'more sober' than the dotcom bubble, with som troubling data-center math

The AI news cycle of the summer captured themes including the challenge of starting a career, the importance of technology in the China/U.S. trade war, and mounting anxiety about the impact of the technology. But in terms of finance and investing, Deutsche Bank sees markets "on edge" and hoping for a soft landing amid bubble fears. In part, it blames tech CEOs for egging on the market with overpromises, leading to inflated hopes and dreams, many spurred on by tech leaders' overpromises.
Artificial intelligence
Environment
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

Tech companies 'be on alert,' NAACP says with new guiding principles for data centers

NAACP urges communities to demand accountability for energy-hungry data centers, warning of resistance and legal action over fossil-fuel-driven electricity harming air, water, and homes.
California
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

California lawmakers kill plans to curb AI-manipulated prices

California lawmakers killed or narrowed several bills restricting predictive pricing, data center energy disclosures, and broader AI oversight, delaying other AI-related measures.
Environment
fromIT Pro
1 month ago

Gas-powered data centers: what's behind the boom?

Data center operators are adopting on-site generation, often natural gas, to overcome grid bottlenecks and rapidly meet generative AI energy demands despite emissions concerns.
California
fromSan Jose Inside
1 month ago

AI Price-setting Algorithms Get a Pass in Sacramento

California lawmakers killed or narrowed multiple bills limiting predictive pricing, data-center energy transparency, and broader AI oversight, delaying several AI regulation measures until next year.
fromSFGATE
1 month ago

Pennsylvania's Data Boom: 5 Key Takeaways Homeowners Should Know

Pennsylvania is positioning itself as a hub for data centers, attracting billions in investments and creating job opportunities in AI and advanced manufacturing sectors. The state's favorable conditions for data centers, such as cheap energy and a skilled workforce, are drawing tech projects like Project Gravity to the area. Pennsylvania's zoning laws have hindered the development of data centers and residential housing, contributing to rising home prices and rents.
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