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fromTechRepublic
3 hours ago

Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary Plots Massive Data Centers Across US, Canada

We have under development approximately 26,000 acres across two jurisdictions with the infrastructure necessary to support power generation and compute capacity at scale. Each Wonder Valley campus is expected to provide 7.5 gigawatts of power generation capacity, creating a combined initial power plan of 15 gigawatts.
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fromIntelligencer
22 hours ago

The Future of War Is Drones Bombing Data Centers

Iranian drone strikes on data centers in the UAE and Bahrain demonstrate a new warfare strategy targeting critical digital infrastructure, causing cascading internet outages across multiple regions and affecting major global companies.
#ai-infrastructure
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fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

BI's reporters from our award-winning data centers package share what they're watching this year

AI-driven data center expansion is straining electricity and water resources, raising environmental, air-quality, and financial risks tied to circular deals and Big Tech credit exposure.
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fromFortune
1 week ago

AI is running out of power. Space won't be an escape hatch for decades | Fortune

Orbital solar-powered data centers could alleviate soaring AI electricity demand but face substantial technical, economic, and infrastructure hurdles before becoming practical.
European startups
from24/7 Wall St.
1 day ago

Nebius Group Just Became a Major AI Infrastructure Player

Nebius secured approval for a 1.2 gigawatt AI data center campus in Missouri, marking its transition from mid-tier to major AI infrastructure player with multi-billion-dollar investment and 2026 power delivery timeline.
fromFortune
1 week ago
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AI is running out of power. Space won't be an escape hatch for decades | Fortune

#electricity-costs
fromWIRED
20 hours ago
US politics

Big Tech Signs White House Data Center Pledge With Good Optics and Little Substance

Tech companies signed a nonbinding White House pledge to prevent data center costs from being passed to consumers' electricity bills, though experts question the pledge's enforceability.
fromFast Company
1 week ago
US politics

Trump says AI data centers should be powered by tech companies. Will that actually lower your electricity bill?

Trump announced a 'ratepayer protection pledge' requiring major tech companies to build their own power plants to meet data center electricity demands and prevent community electricity price increases.
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fromWIRED
20 hours ago

Big Tech Signs White House Data Center Pledge With Good Optics and Little Substance

Tech companies signed a nonbinding White House pledge to prevent data center costs from being passed to consumers' electricity bills, though experts question the pledge's enforceability.
fromFast Company
1 week ago
US politics

Trump says AI data centers should be powered by tech companies. Will that actually lower your electricity bill?

European startups
fromPortland Mercury
1 day ago

Legislators Temporarily Cut Data Centers From Oregon Tax Break Bill

Oregon's budget subcommittee blocked new data center projects from tax break eligibility until summer 2027, preventing hundreds of millions in additional subsidies to already-profitable companies like Amazon, Meta, Apple, and Google.
fromSilicon Canals
5 days ago

Saudi Arabia commits $100 billion to AI infrastructure in bid to diversify beyond oil - Silicon Canals

The investment will flow through a newly formed venture called HUMAIN, a Saudi-based company focused on building AI infrastructure including data centers, cloud computing campuses, and the development of Arabic-language AI models. The partnership brings together Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) with leading US technology companies, creating a framework for the Kingdom to host some of the world's most advanced computing facilities.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
5 days ago

Opinion: AI is destroying our planet. We must act to check its growth and save ourselves.

AI's environmental impact is severe, with 2025 freshwater consumption exceeding global bottled water use and projected energy demands by 2034 matching India's entire consumption, requiring immediate action.
from24/7 Wall St.
6 days ago

Strengthen Your Passive Income Stream with High-Yielding REITs

Most are a great hedge against inflation. After all, when inflation rises, so do a lot of rents. Two, we're seeing a recovery in demand for offices, apartment buildings, warehouses, hospitals, shopping centers, and hotels. We're also seeing bigger demand for e-commerce, logistics, and warehouse demands, as noted by JPMorgan.
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US politics
fromwww.npr.org
6 days ago

These major issues have brought together Democrats and Republicans in states

State legislators from both parties are uniting to regulate artificial intelligence and data centers, breaking typical partisan divisions seen in Congress.
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fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
1 week ago

Infrastructure as a Cornerstone of Wealth Preservation Explained - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

Infrastructure assets generate stable, inflation-adjusted returns through long-lived operations, regulated revenues, and predictable cash flows, with digital infrastructure now capturing significant global investment.
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fromTechzine Global
1 week ago

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expects no space-based data centers this decade

Building data centers in space is impractical; AI energy and water-consumption claims are exaggerated; ChatGPT's lifetime energy is comparable to an average human's.
US politics
fromAxios
1 week ago

Dems eyeing 2028 tap the brakes on AI data centers

Democratic governors who once courted data centers are reversing course amid public backlash over rising energy bills and fears of AI-driven job losses.
Environment
fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

Big Tech wants more data centers. Residents in this New Jersey city said not here.

New Brunswick removed data centers from permitted uses after local and environmental opposition to resource-intensive AI-related facilities.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Slow this thing down': Sanders warns US has no clue about speed and scale of coming AI revolution

Congress and the American public are unprepared for a fast, large-scale AI revolution; urgent policy action required to slow expansion and protect workers.
US politics
fromAxios
1 week ago

AI's populist moment

State-level Democrats and Republicans are adopting anti-Big Tech, anti-data-center stances to challenge tech influence and subsidies amid AI expansion.
US politics
fromFortune
1 week ago

Voters' fury and the American energy 'paradox': Higher utility bills, record oil and gas production-and 45% of the world's data centers | Fortune

AI-driven data center growth is increasing electricity demand and local power costs, turning energy affordability into a major midterm political issue.
fromTechzine Global
1 week ago

The Netherlands risks missing out on AI gigafactory due to slow government

The Netherlands has the opportunity to build a European data center with 100,000 AI chips and 20 petabytes of storage, but the government is lagging behind in terms of financial commitment. Energy company Eneco and data center party Volt, who together want to build the AI gigafactory, warn that neighboring countries are moving ahead and emptying the EU subsidy pot of 20 billion euros. "While the Netherlands actually has very good conditions," according to Eneco.
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fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

Blue Owl shopped debt for a CoreWeave data center. Lenders weren't sold.

Blue Owl Capital failed to secure lender financing for a $4 billion CoreWeave data center in Lancaster due to lender concerns about CoreWeave's creditworthiness.
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fromInfoWorld
1 week ago

The data center gold rush is warping reality

The rapid data center construction surge may be driven more by competitive signaling than genuine demand, risking overbuild and future economic and infrastructure burdens.
fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks ago

Police arrested a man at a meeting to discuss a proposed Oklahoma data center after exceeding his time limit by 30 seconds

Applause broke out during an Oklahoma man's speech at a city council meeting on Tuesday to discuss a proposed data center. A minute later, shouts of disbelief rang out across the room. "Disgusting!" one woman shouted as Claremore Police Department officers handcuffed and escorted Daniel Blanchard out of the room. Authorities said they arrested Blanchard, whose speech exceeded the three-minute time limit, for trespassing.
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fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

Farmer Hailed as Hero for Rejecting Huge Payment to Turn His Land Into a Giant Data Center

Farmers are rejecting lucrative data-center offers to preserve farmland and conserve resources amid AI-driven data center expansion straining grids and local communities.
fromNextgov.com
2 weeks ago

Republican governor asserts states' right to legislate AI

"It's one thing if ... we're fighting China and you're developing your model, but once you start selling sexualized chatbots to kids in my state, now I have a problem with that, and I'm going to get involved there, and the Supreme Court is going to back me up on that," Cox said.
US politics
#artificial-intelligence
fromFortune
2 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

India cobbles together $200 billion-plus for data-center investment | Fortune

fromSFGATE
4 weeks ago
Tech industry

Google's quarterly results paint a picture of an internet powerhouse getting stronger in AI age

fromFortune
2 weeks ago
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India cobbles together $200 billion-plus for data-center investment | Fortune

fromSFGATE
4 weeks ago
Tech industry

Google's quarterly results paint a picture of an internet powerhouse getting stronger in AI age

#power-transmission
Environment
fromTechCrunch
2 weeks ago

Heron Power raises $140M to ramp production of grid-altering tech | TechCrunch

Heron Power raised $140 million to scale production of solid-state transformers for data centers and the grid after customers expressed demand exceeding 40 gigawatts.
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fromEngadget
2 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Meta will run AI in WhatsApp through NVIDIA's 'confidential computing'

fromEngadget
2 weeks ago
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Meta will run AI in WhatsApp through NVIDIA's 'confidential computing'

fromComputerWeekly.com
2 weeks ago

Interview: CyrusOne on the sustainable innovation that drives datacentre business outcomes | Computer Weekly

[EHS] is actually a profit centre in the company," he says. "I know people tend to think it isn't. Compared to some other hats that I've worn, sustainability is usually not a cost centre.
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fromWIRED
2 weeks ago

The Small English Town Swept Up in the Global AI Arms Race

Potters Bar residents are trying to prevent a large AI-related data center from replacing 85 acres of greenbelt farmland and harming local wellbeing.
Environment
fromTruthout
2 weeks ago

Grassroots Organizers in Wisconsin Offer Blueprint for Beating Back Data Centers

Private equity and corporate interests are driving a nationwide data-center boom that sparks local resistance over noise, pollution, higher bills, and water depletion.
from24/7 Wall St.
2 weeks ago

GE Vernova Surges 2.95% This Week and Becomes Massachusetts' Largest Company

Revenue hit $11 billion, beating the $10.3 billion estimate by roughly 7%. Free cash flow surged from .6 billion last Q4 to $1.8 billion this year. The company doubled its quarterly dividend to $0.50 and raised 2028 revenue guidance to $56 billion, up from prior expectations near $52 billion. Management projects cumulative free cash flow of $24 billion through 2028.
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fromFortune
2 weeks ago

orgent's IPO is 'bringing sexy back' to the electrical equipment helping power the AI boom, CEO says | Fortune

Forgent Power Solutions rapidly consolidated four legacy firms to supply bespoke electrical distribution equipment, capitalizing on AI-driven data center growth and expanding order backlog.
#energy-policy
fromFortune
2 weeks ago
US politics

Politicians scramble on data centers after putting their voters on the hook for Big Tech's job-killing AI efforts | Fortune

fromFortune
2 weeks ago
US politics

Politicians scramble on data centers after putting their voters on the hook for Big Tech's job-killing AI efforts | Fortune

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fromFortune
2 weeks ago

Middle-class Americans are paying for the data center and AI boom with higher electric bills and even food costs, Goldman Sachs warns | Fortune

Rising electricity demand from AI-focused data centers will increase business production costs and consumer prices, disproportionately burdening small businesses and lower-income households.
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from24/7 Wall St.
2 weeks ago

Lumentum Leaps Nearly 8% During AI Optics Boom

Optical interconnects are crucial for data center scaling, creating major investment opportunities in optics companies like Lumentum, Coherent, Finisar, and Sienna.
Business
from24/7 Wall St.
3 weeks ago

Comfort Systems is One of the S&P 500's Top Performers in 2026

Comfort Systems' rapid transformation into an AI-infrastructure HVAC provider, driven by data-center demand and record backlog, has propelled its stock to elevated valuations.
Business
from24/7 Wall St.
3 weeks ago

Generac's Data Center Pivot Fuels 57% Rally Despite Q4 Earnings Miss

Generac's pivot to supplying hyperscale data centers and expanding C&I manufacturing is driving backlog growth and major stock outperformance.
Business
from24/7 Wall St.
3 weeks ago

Energy Royalty Company Texas Pacific Land Corp (TPL) Surges After AI Pivot

Texas Pacific Land's stock surged YTD as investors bet on a strategic pivot into West Texas data centers and digital infrastructure despite earnings misses.
fromThe Verge
3 weeks ago

Anthropic says it'll try to keep its data centers from raising electricity costs

Anthropic is the latest AI company promising to limit the impact its data centers have on nearby residents' electricity bills. The company said it would pay higher monthly electricity charges in order to cover 100 percent of the upgrades needed to connect its data centers to power grids. "This includes the shares of these costs that would otherwise be passed onto consumers," the announcement says. Anthropic didn't provide details today about any agreements it has inked with energy companies in order to accomplish these goals.
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from24/7 Wall St.
3 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

This Power Infrastructure ETF Is Crushing the QQQ This Year

Power capacity and infrastructure are a critical bottleneck for AI data centers, creating significant investment opportunities in power infrastructure and related ETFs.
fromFortune
3 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

AI agents aren't eating SaaS-they're using it | Fortune

Market reactions to AI oscillate drastically, driving large SaaS valuation swings while AI advances raise cybersecurity, data-center, and model-safety concerns.
from24/7 Wall St.
3 weeks ago

Jefferies Loves 5 Dividend-Paying Utility Stocks but Warns of Caution on the Sector

Because they operate continuously, data centers consume electricity. These operations involve operating large numbers of servers, cooling systems, networking equipment, and other infrastructure components. The electricity consumption of data centers varies widely with size, capacity, efficiency, and geographic location, yet demand is constant. While that was an important data point over the past few years, many of the top stocks in the sector have delivered outsized gains and may be trading near their highs.
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fromThe Verge
3 weeks ago

Microsoft wants to rewire data centers to save space

High-temperature superconductors could enable data centers and power grids to transmit electricity with near-zero resistance, reducing energy loss, infrastructure size, and community impact.
Real estate
fromwww.mercurynews.com
3 weeks ago

Data center firm buys three South Bay tech buildings for $100 million

CoreSite paid $100 million for three Santa Clara tech buildings, 26.6% more than GI Partners’ 2021 purchase, reflecting data-center conversion demand.
Tech industry
fromBusiness Insider
3 weeks ago

Eric Schmidt-backed data center venture is negotiating a major deal with Google

Bolt Data and Energy, cofounded by Eric Schmidt, is negotiating with Google to anchor a large West Texas data center campus and raised $150M.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Rage against the machine: a California community rallied against a datacenter and won

Community opposition in Monterey Park halted a proposed four-football-field datacenter, prompting a 45-day moratorium and exploration of a permanent ban.
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fromEngadget
3 weeks ago

New York lawmakers introduce bill that aims to halt data center development for three years

New York introduced a bill to pause new data center permits for at least three years and ninety days for impact assessments and regulatory updates.
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks ago

New York lawmakers propose a three-year pause on new data centers | TechCrunch

New Yorker state lawmakers have introduced a bill that would impose a moratorium of at least three years on permits tied to the construction and operation of new data centers. While the bill's prospects are uncertain, Wired reports that New York is at least the sixth state to consider pausing construction of new data centers. As tech companies plan to spend ever-increasing amounts of money to build AI infrastructure, both Democrats and Republicans have expressed concerns about the impact those data centers might have on surrounding communities.
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fromFast Company
3 weeks ago

Here's how much Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Google will spend to develop more AI in 2026

Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon plan to spend roughly $650 billion on AI in 2026, funding data centers and semiconductors to secure long-term competitive advantage.
fromTechzine Global
3 weeks ago

"Oracle considering drastic measures to finance AI spending"

Oracle's investments in AI may prove costly. Investment bank TD Cowen says the company hopes to reduce costs to finance its ambitious AI infrastructure build. To that end, it has already accumulated $58 billion in debt in two months. A round of layoffs affecting 30,000 employees is possible, while even a spin-off of Oracle Health, formerly Cerner, is being considered. Since September, Oracle has lost half of its market value, which currently stands at just under $400 billion.
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fromTechCrunch
3 weeks ago

AWS revenue continues to soar as cloud demand remains high | TechCrunch

It's very different having 24% year-over-year growth on $142 billion annualized run rate than to have a higher percentage growth on a meaningfully smaller base, which is the case with our competitors. We continue to add more incremental revenue and capacity than others, and extend our leadership position.
Tech industry
fromFast Company
3 weeks ago

The tech industry is spending millions to fix data centers' image problem

With community opposition growing, data center backers are going on a full-scale public relations blitz. Around Christmas in Virginia, which boasts the highest concentration of data centers in the country, one advertisement seemed to air nonstop. "Virginia's data centers are ... investing billions in clean energy," a voiceover intoned over sweeping shots of shiny solar panels. "Creating good-paying jobs" - cue men in yellow safety vests and hard hats - "and building a better energy future."
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fromMyNorthwest.com
4 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Google's quarterly results paint a picture of an internet powerhouse getting stronger in AI age - MyNorthwest.com

fromYahoo Finance
4 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Google's quarterly results paint a picture of an internet powerhouse getting stronger in AI age

fromMyNorthwest.com
4 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Google's quarterly results paint a picture of an internet powerhouse getting stronger in AI age - MyNorthwest.com

fromYahoo Finance
4 weeks ago
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Google's quarterly results paint a picture of an internet powerhouse getting stronger in AI age

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fromTechzine Global
4 weeks ago

EU data center market has been overloaded for five years, AI makes crisis visible

Europe faces a structural data-center capacity shortage intensified by AI, driving higher prices and a geographic shift toward regions with cheaper, abundant power.
fromFortune
4 weeks ago

Over a million people are losing power during a freezing snowstorm while data centers nearby guzzle electricity | Fortune

Estimates vary widely, but the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab anticipates that the share of electricity production in the U.S. used by data centers could spike from 4.4% in 2023 to between 6.7% and 12% by 2028. PJM expects a peak load growth of 32 gigawatts by 2030 - enough power to supply 30 million new homes, but nearly all going to new data centers.
Environment
fromTruthout
4 weeks ago

Amid the Winter Storm, a Rural SC County Quietly Approved a $2.4B Data Center

"There was a public meeting, which most were unaware of," Jessie Chandler, a resident of rural Marion County, told Capital B, referring to a Jan. 22 council meeting. "I know legally they had to announce the public meeting within a certain time frame for all of us to attend, but most of the county [was] preparing for this winter storm, which we know firsthand will affect us all because it has before."
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fromBrooklyn Eagle
4 weeks ago

PREMIUM Data centers told to pitch in as storms and cold weather boost power demand

As Winter Storm Fern swept across the United States in late January 2026, bringing ice, snow and freezing temperatures, it left more than a million people without power, mostly in the Southeast.
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fromTechCrunch
4 weeks ago

Vema predicts cheap hydrogen could change where data centers are built | TechCrunch

Vema Hydrogen produces geologic hydrogen by reacting water with iron-rich underground rock, offering potential sub-$1/kg clean hydrogen for industrial users and data centers.
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fromBusiness Insider
4 weeks ago

Gruve raises $50 million to solve what its CEO calls AI's biggest problem: power

Gruve raised $50 million to aggregate unused data center power across U.S. sites and provide distributed software and operations for AI inference workloads.
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fromTechRepublic
1 month ago

India Offers Tech Giants Tax-Free Status Until 2047 - TechRepublic

India offers a full tax holiday until 2047 for foreign AI and cloud providers that route global services through Indian data centers, conditional on using Indian reseller entities.
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fromTechzine Global
1 month ago

Oracle aims to raise $50 billion for additional data center capacity

Oracle will raise $45–50 billion to expand Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, split roughly half equity and half debt, to meet surging AI customer capacity demand.
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

India offers zero taxes through 2047 to lure global AI workloads | TechCrunch

As the global race to build AI infrastructure accelerates, India has offered foreign cloud providers zero taxes through 2047 on services sold outside the country if they run those workloads from Indian data centers - a bid to attract the next wave of AI computing investment, even as power shortages and water stress threaten expansion in the South Asian nation.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

A chatbot entirely powered by humans, not artificial intelligence? This Chilean community shows why

Residents ran a human-operated chatbot to demonstrate AI data centers' environmental costs and promote responsible, less instantaneous use of automated AI services.
Environment
fromFast Company
1 month ago

How a unique 'chatbot' is helping a small Chile community push back on AI

Quilicura residents will answer Quili.AI queries on January 31 to demonstrate AI's environmental and social impacts and encourage people to try a day without AI.
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
1 month ago

Data as Destiny in the Steel City | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

Pennsylvania is a state of many firsts: It was the nation's first capital, the " birthplace of oil production," home to " America's first superhighway," and the state that monopolized the production of steel in the 20th century. More recently, it has been positioned as one of the leading states in "AI readiness," a term that loosely refers to how equipped companies and governments are to adopt and integrate AI into their systems and daily operations.
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fromFortune
1 month ago

Tech CFOs face a new challenge: Selling unprecedented capex as 'disciplined' | Fortune

Good morning. During earnings calls this week, the CFOs of big tech companies, Meta and Microsoft, delivered a similar message: the AI race requires unprecedented capital spending, but that spending is disciplined, demand-driven, and ultimately margin-accretive rather than reckless. The companies urged investors to look past headline numbers and focus instead on utilization, long-term economics, and visible revenue traction.
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