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UK data centres will create far fewer jobs than the tech industry claims, new research finds
An environmental thinktank puts the likely job total at 10,400, roughly a quarter of the 40,000-plus figure the industry lobby has been promoting.

A fire at a $3.2 billion AI data centre left firefighters going in blind
When a blaze broke out at a partly-built New York data centre, the local fire crew found no alarms, no sprinklers, three dead hydrants, and safety documents that had apparently burned along with everything else.

Los centros de datos de IA de Estados Unidos funcionan con componentes chinos. Washington quiere cambiar eso.
Desde los transformadores que regulan la electricidad hasta los cables que transportan datos, una parte sorprendente del hardware que mantiene funcionando las instalaciones de IA estadounidenses proviene de China. Si eso cambia rápidamente, se avecinan costos y retrasos.

La empresa británica de IA Nscale, de dos años de antigüedad, persigue $3.5 mil millones antes de una posible IPO este mes
La startup de computación, fundada en 2024, está en conversaciones para recaudar $1.5 mil millones en notas convertibles y $2 mil millones de Nvidia mientras busca una cotización en bolsa.

The Real AI Bottleneck Is Not the Chip. It Is Where the Data Lives.
AI systems are straining under real-time demands, and the weak point is not processing power. It is memory, storage, and the pipes connecting them.

Crusoe recauda $3 mil millones con una valoración de $30 mil millones mientras crece la demanda de centros de datos de IA
La empresa, que construye centros de datos a gran escala para clientes como OpenAI y Oracle, ha triplicado su valoración en menos de un año y ahora está considerando una cotización en bolsa.

SB Energy files for IPO with a $3.2 billion loss and one giant customer
The AI data centre builder backed by SoftBank and its partners OpenAI and Nvidia is heading to the stock market while carrying heavy losses and a frank admission: its near-term future depends almost entirely on OpenAI.

Scottish MPs Want to Pause AI Data Centre Building. Here's Why It Matters.
The SNP and Scottish Greens are backing a freeze on new AI data centres across the UK, where around 450 already exist. The political fight is sharpening fast.

Communities Around the World Are Pushing Back Against AI Data Centres
From Scotland to India, local groups say the giant buildings that power AI are eating too much energy and land. Governments are starting to listen.

Sequoia's Spin-Out Empirik Raises $21M to Catch Server Outages Before They Happen
Two IT veterans who spent years firefighting tech failures at Rubrik and VMware built an AI tool that spots trouble before the system crashes. Now it's a real company with serious backing.

Trump warns datacenter opponents they will end up 'backwards and poor'
Three in four Americans say they do not want a datacenter near their home. The president says communities that block them will have only themselves to blame.

Who should pay for the power hungry AI data centres? Readers say: the companies building them
Two planned UK data centres could emit more carbon than ExxonMobil. Letter writers want the tech industry to generate its own electricity and clean up its own mess.

Nvidia Invests $3.5 Billion in MediaTek to Expand AI Chip Collaboration
Nvidia backs MediaTek to keep its infrastructure at the center of custom AI chip development, even as Big Tech builds its own silicon.

Nobody Wanted That Datacenter: How AI's Hunger for Land Is Uniting Unlikely Neighbours
A Google project planned for a small Indiana town drew something rarely seen in American politics right now: unanimous local opposition, from Trump voters and climate activists alike.

Jensen Huang afirma que las apuestas de Nvidia en empresas de IA tienen "bajo riesgo" después de un trimestre récord
El CEO de Nvidia defendió el creciente hábito del fabricante de chips de financiar startups de IA horas después de reportar ingresos trimestrales de $96.2 mil millones, más del doble que hace un año.