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The hidden heat cost of data centers: How server farms create local heat islands
SpaceXAI says it will remove 69 gas turbines used to power the Colossus data centers near Memphis by July 2027, as it moves to a 1.2 GW natural gas power plant (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
South Korea plans to inject ~$14B into its sovereign wealth fund for strategic investments in AI, data centers, and infrastructure, after a rout in tech stocks (Haram Lim/Bloomberg)
Haram Lim / Bloomberg : South Korea plans to inject ~$14B into its sovereign wealth fund for strategic investments in AI, data centers, and infrastructure, after a rout in tech sto…
MediaTek says its board has approved a discretionary $5B financing budget to support long-term growth, including its expansion into AI chips for data centers (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)
Startup plans to put nuclear-powered data centers in the sea — modular units could be much faster to deploy, but questions about reliability and longevity remain
What could go wrong?…
UK wants datacenters to pay a fee for grid connection requests
Refundable charge intended to discourage time wasters from filing applications that will never be realized…
The Trump administration is ending a Medicare drug subsidy program. Here's how it could affect costs
Millions of older adults on Medicare prescription drug coverage could face steeper monthly costs in 2027, after the Trump administration concludes a temporary subsidy program that …
The Debate About The Cost Of Ai Has Taken Centerstage. OpenAI is Cutting The Price Of Two Models - International Business Times
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This land belongs to you and me — even Willie Nelson is pushing back against data centers
Data centers are making Willie Nelson “Crazy”…
Orbital Data Centers Are a Crazy Idea. Go for It
K2 Space, which builds satellites for tasks like data-heavy communications and may power space-based data centers, raised a $500M Series D at a $6.8B valuation (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)
Filing: Meta reports $279B in future lease agreements in Q2 related to AI data centers that are not reflected on its balance sheet, up 53% from the prior period (Shona Ghosh/Bloomberg)
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities…
30 Georgia homes are being acquired via sale or eminent domain to expand power grid — one affected family member says it’s ‘for the data centers’
Georgia Power denies the allegation, says it’s ‘not in the data center business.’…
Three takeaways - why operational intelligence is now part of the capacity conversation
Operational intelligence helps data centers use capacity safely and commercially…
Atomarine: Nuclear Data Centers at Sea
Floating data center platforms, built in shipyards and deployed at sea. Cooled by seawater, powered on the platform, and connected to shore.…
LinkedIn Won’t Be Expanding Its Data Centers in the Next Year
Despite the ongoing AI boom, LinkedIn is holding the line on compute spending. Instead, it’s challenging engineers to make every GPU count.…
How silicon photonics lights the way for data centers
Silicon photonics offers a scalable path to AI data center growth…
A.I. Data Centers in Space? A System to Cool Chips Could Help.
Researchers at Caltech and Sophia Space, a start-up, have developed a technology using solar power to prevent computer equipment from overheating in orbit.…
Verizon scores $1 billion Google deal to connect its data centers to dark fiber - but is this only the beginning?
Verizon wants to connect AI infrastructure…
Trump Administration Is Repurposing Federal Land for A.I. Data Centers
In the latest example, the Energy Department will convert a shuttered Cold War-era uranium enrichment facility into a data center campus and gas plants.…
Data Centers Are Easy to Build. Powering Them Is Complicated, Slow, and Expensive
A new AI data center can be up and running in a year. Building new energy infrastructure to power it could take a decade.…
‘We are the reason that data centers get built and expanded’: It’s not about whether we need them, but it’s about where we build them, IDCA founder and CEO says
Society is to blame for data center projects in the first place…
GlobalFoundries says the US plans to award it $300M in CHIPS Act funding to bolster R&D of silicon photonics tech to power more efficient AI data centers (Reuters)
A 330 MW data center wanted to buy a farm, switch off the irrigation, and drink the difference — California's most powerful irrigation district said no, so it sued
The 287 million gallons are a rounding error. The precedent is not.…
Satellite Images Suggest Iran Really Did Blow up Amazon’s Data Centers in Bahrain
That's some very expensive rubble.…
Letter: the US EPA says power plants providing electricity only to data centers and not to the public grid would not be subject to federal pollution laws (Tim McLaughlin/Reuters)
Tim McLaughlin / Reuters : Letter: the US EPA says power plants providing electricity only to data centers and not to the public grid would not be subject to federal pollution laws…
The Trump administration is exempting data centers from pollution laws intended to prevent acid rain
Don't worry, the Trump administration won't let a little acid rain get in the way of more data centers.…
Data centers may face temporary power cuts to prevent blackouts on largest US grid
The largest grid operator in the U.S. says it will cut power to large data centers to prevent blackouts starting next year.…
Data centers, power and how to be a winner in the AI Boom
The energy sector's AI boom amidst current grid challenges…
ESA satellite images show damage to two Amazon data centers in Bahrain, supporting Iran's claims last week that it struck the sites; Amazon declined to comment (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg)
CMS evaluates one year of health tech progress, announces eight new pledge categories
One year after launching the CMS Health Tech Ecosystem, officials convened in D.C. to celebrate the Trump administration modernizing health technology.…
How to Build a Data Center
Big Tech and local campaigners are going to war over data centers. But is the problem really so intractable, asks Joe Nocera.…
Fox News Poll: Cool your servers! Voters reject data centers
A 40-point margin of voters oppose building data centers in their area, citing environmental concerns over energy use, water use, and pollution.…
Daily on Energy: Talarico brings data centers into the mix in Texas
WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY: Good afternoon and happy Monday, readers! We hope you all had a restful weekend. The House is out of town, but the Senate remains…
The Gas-To-Nuclear Bridge For AI Data Centers
Amentum, GE Vernova, and Oklo are positioned at different points in the gas-to-nuclear development model. Read more here...…
In the US, opposition to data centers is growing and becomes political
As the 'decentralized and ideologically heterogeneous' movement against data centers grows, US President Donald Trump wants AI companies to foot the bill.…
California city leads nation in ‘baby bust’ as families flee urban centers
Children are disappearing from major cities, and urban centers in California are leading the trend.…
TPG in talks to buy Netrality Data Centers for up to $3 billion - Bloomberg
Ohio’s cautionary tale on data centers is a lesson for us all
US environmental groups urge EPA to reject new Pfas to cool datacenters
Coalition says Chemours downplayed health and climate risks in bid to fast-track the compound’s use…
How would AI data centers in space even work? A former NASA robotics chief explains
'You collect electricity in space, and you eject heat in space. The only thing that comes to Earth is data.'…
The war on data centers jeopardizes our economy and national security
Some 78 local jurisdictions have imposed data center bans or moratoriums, but the growing movement may only benefit China in the AI war race.…
Off-grid data centers aren't the panacea that some AI firms hoped
DeWine Takes Action on Data Centers
Gov. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, on Thursday joined nearly half of the governors in the country in signing onto President Donald Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge. The pledge would requ…
Predictiva, la 'startup' malagueña que afina los 'call centers' con inteligencia artificial
La empresa, fundada en 2016, se muda de Marbella a Málaga para agilizar su crecimiento: quiere triplicar plantilla en los próximos 18 meses…
A deal is being negotiated that centers around having Iran run vessel transit through the Strait of Hormuz with fewer restrictions on ships
A regional official said that both the U.S. and Iran want to return to the interim ceasefire deal.…
Texas politicians call for guardrails on AI, data centers
The Pentagon wants to build data centers. Congress would like a word.
Lawmakers are setting their sights on data centers proposed for military bases, concerned about massive energy and water consumption.…
‘My childhood home is being taken’: Eminent domain for data centers targets properties across a thousand miles of grid expansion in Georgia
Nearly 30 residential properties are located along a 35-mile stretch in Georgia where some residents said they have no choice but to sell their homes.…
Data centers were actually making electricity costs cheaper, but the $7 trillion buildout with no guaranteed AI demand is threatening the trend
From 2015 to 2024, average retail electricity prices decreased by 3.5% for every doubling of data center capacity, new research finds.…
Trump’s Push to Build Data Centers for the US Military
If you live near a military base, there’s a chance you’ll soon find that a privately owned data center has moved into your area. A year ago, President Donald Trump issued an execut…
Had Enough Water? Brain's Thirst Centers Make a Gut Check
New UCSF study may have answered how your brain knows when you’ve had enough water.…
Data Centers — Not Iran — Are Fueling the U.S.’s Coming Energy Crisis
Startups are installing tiny data centers in people’s homes to reduce strain on the beleaguered electrical grid
Span, in partnership with Nvidia and PulteGroup, uses homes’ underutilized electrical capacity in computer processing.…
The Flawed Environmental Case Against Data Centers
Our animosity toward data centers is really more about our anxieties about A.I.…
With Data Centers and Energy, the Lefties Look Left
The political left is worried that the rapid expansion of data centers across the U.S. – a controversial but necessary development considering our competition with China – is incre…
Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says Verizon will provide dark-fiber connectivity for Google's data centers in a $1B+ deal, with more such deals in the pipeline (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters : Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says Verizon will provide dark-fiber connectivity for Google's data centers in a $1B+ deal, with more such deals in the pipeline…
Nvidia, SK Group unveil $500 billion-plus AI data centers initiative, memory partnership - Reuters
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Nvidia plans to invest $1B in Naver to help finance an AI data center in South Korea, and partners with SK Group to build more than 2 GW of AI data centers (Ian King/Bloomberg)
Ian King / Bloomberg : Nvidia plans to invest $1B in Naver to help finance an AI data center in South Korea, and partners with SK Group to build more than 2 GW of AI data centers —…