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Four US states rolled back or paused data center tax incentives, and nine others are weighing repeal measures, potentially adding 7% or more to equipment costs (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information)
Palantir debuts 'war' data center in a container, full of Nvidia's B300 AI accelerators and open-weight models
Palantir's portable AI data centers could change military computing by taking powerful Nvidia hardware directly into combat zones…
OpenAI in Georgia: How $20B data center plan secretly took root in Effingham - ajc.com
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The hidden heat cost of data centers: How server farms create local heat islands
SpaceX Agrees to Remove Temporary Gas Turbines at Colossus Data Center By 2027
Elon Musk’s AI company has about a year to remove the unpermitted turbines.…
Foundational Industries, which aims to build AI-run factories for physical products, starting with custom data center rack enclosures, raised a $25M seed (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
The AI Data Center Explained – From Electricity to ChatGPT [video]
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SpaceXAI says it will take a year to fully remove unpermitted gas turbines from its Mississippi data center
The company was accused of violating the Clean Air Act by the NAACP.…
Effingham Officials Report Threats After OpenAI Data Center News - Effingham Herald
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AI Data Center Turbines, Backlogged for Years, Are Suffering Early Deaths
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)
Facing Protests, xAI to Phase Out 69 Gas Turbines at Memphis Data Center
However, an environmental group takes issue with the potentially year-long phaseout of the temporary turbines. The removal will also make way for 41 permanent turbines.…
How to fight a data center
If you're worried about noise, utility costs, or pollution: here's how to fight against a data center.…
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?…
Georgia residents packed OpenAI open house and protested 1,400-acre data center plan - Yahoo
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Georgia residents packed OpenAI open house and protested 1,400-acre data center plan - The Cool Down
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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”…
DeepSeek Plans Gigawatt Scale AI Data Center in Inner Mongolia
Thieves Are Now Targeting AI Data Center Construction Sites
Investigators recovered two stolen trailers carrying $1.3 million in data center supplies, including copper wire and infrastructure equipment.…
Sources: DeepSeek plans to build a 1 GW data center in Inner Mongolia and aims to bring at least part of its capacity online by the end of 2027 or early 2028 (Bloomberg)
OpenAI, Oracle data center seeks permit to discharge wastewater into Saline River - MLive.com
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Sources: a group of banks is in talks to lend $15B to Nexus to build a Texas data center; Anthropic will lease it and Google has provided financial guarantees (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)
Data center operators must take local populations seriously to succeed
The data center problem is no longer technical. It's local.…
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)
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…
Pennsylvania town lists 43 specific demands to approve new AI data center project — developer calls local demands 'too difficult' as council slams response as 'approval by tantrum'
The township says this is ‘a blatant attempt by the Applicant to demand approval by tantrum.’…
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.…
A Peace Plan for the Data Center Wars
Almost overnight, data centers have emerged as one of the most controversial issues in America. But do they need to be? Joe Nocera doesn't think so.…
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…
“Clapping Is a First Amendment Right:” An Interview With the Person Arrested for Clapping at a Data Center Meeting
"I have a right to speak. I'm here to speak. I have a right to clap, and if you want me out, you're going to have to drag me out."…
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.…
OpenAI Plans US$500 Billion AI Data Center With Nvidia Backing - Mexico Business News
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NextEra, Brookfield plan $100 billion data center at US uranium site in Kentucky - Reuters
NextEra, Brookfield plan $100 billion data center at US uranium site in Kentucky Reuters…
OpenAI Nears $500B AI Data Center With Nvidia Backing - Mexico Business News
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Kentucky Takes a Step Forward: New Data Center and Energy Initiative to Enhance Energy Affordability
On Wednesday, Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced a major redevelopment of the Kentucky Paducah, KY Gaseous Diffusion Plant. The development is expected to bring thousands of j…
Brookfield and NextEra partner to develop a $100B, 1.2GW+ AI data center campus at a former DOE uranium-enrichment site in Kentucky, set to open in 2032 (Robb M. Stewart/Wall Street Journal)
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…
Teacher arrested for clapping in support of opposition at an AI data center meeting — gigawatt-scale project gets approved anyway despite community resistance
Is clapping politely disruptive enough to get you arrested?…
The data center nightmare uniting MAGA voters and socialist Democrats
The stream that coursed over Maily Kocinski’s Wisconsin family farm for 47 years dried up after construction began on Meta’s AI data center in nearby Beaver Dam. When it returned, …
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)
Trying to Make a Buck Off a Data Center, One 6-Pack at a Time
What do you do when a $25 billion complex is under construction nearby? One couple in Abilene had an idea.…
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.…
Philly suburb: Sure, build that data center—but first meet our 43 demands
The final condition will shock you! (It won’t. It’s taxes.)...…
Paulding County holds meetings over OpenAI data center plans - 11Alive.com
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Talking Points: Minnesota judge reverses ban on prediction markets; OpenAI near deal on massive data center project - The Boston Globe
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Nearly 1,000 Georgia residents confront OpenAI over a $20 billion data center deal cut in secret - Yahoo
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Satellite Images Suggest Iran Really Did Blow up Amazon’s Data Centers in Bahrain
That's some very expensive rubble.…
AI Alignment Debate Intensifies as OpenAI Seeks $250B Nvidia Backstop for Massive Data Center - AI Insider
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How Anonymized PSC Data Foretells OpenAI’s 3.2 GW Build - Data Center Knowledge
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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.…