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Oracle's AI cloud business just had its best quarter ever. What the numbers actually mean.
Revenue hit $19.35 billion, cloud infrastructure more than doubled, and the company has taken on over $100 billion in debt to build data centres for AI. Big quarter. Bigger bet.
AI Data Centres Are Driving a Surge in Forever Chemical Production, Campaigners Warn
A survey of the ten largest PFAS manufacturers found most plan to increase output to meet demand from AI infrastructure, raising fresh health concerns.
Christine Lagarde says Europe needs its own AI before trade partners use it as a weapon
The ECB president says Europe must build 'good enough' AI models and run them from European data centres, or risk having digital services used as leverage in trade disputes.
Texas Governor Tells Data Centres to Report Their Water Use or Pay the Price
Greg Abbott has ordered state regulators to crack down on data centres that ignore Texas law requiring them to report how much water they use.
They blocked a datacenter. Now they're running for office.
A grassroots movement against AI infrastructure is turning community anger into local political power, starting with the first US city to ban datacenter construction.
US data centres could guzzle more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035
A new BloombergNEF report nearly doubles its own nine-month-old forecast, finding AI's hunger for power could add the equivalent of 12% of total US greenhouse gas emissions every day.
Anthropic signs its first Australian data centre deal in western Queensland
The company behind the Claude AI assistant will lease space in a $31 billion facility, with Queensland's premier calling it a jobs win for the state.
Scotland demands environmental checks on big datacentres before they can be built
Any new facility drawing more than 50 megawatts of power must now pass an environmental impact assessment. The Scottish government stopped short of a full ban, but the rules are tighter than they have ever been.
Your AI Data Center Has a Heat Problem. Here Is What the Industry Is Doing About It.
Modern AI chips now burn more than 1,000 watts each. Air conditioning can't keep up. A new white paper explains why liquid cooling is becoming the only practical answer.
AI's e-waste bill by 2050 is far bigger than anyone was counting
A nonprofit has calculated the full weight of hardware behind AI, and the e-waste total by 2050 is enough to fill 23 million shipping containers.
AI Data Centres Are Breaking the Power Grid, and It Is Not About Supply
Two massive blackouts in Virginia exposed a deeper problem: the way AI campuses connect to the grid is the real danger, and a new power architecture aims to fix it.
A Seven-Year-Old Chip Startup Just Raised $468 Million to Fix the AI Memory Shortage
Kepler Computing says it can squeeze more memory into existing chip factories, skipping the $20-to-$40 billion cost of building new ones. What that means for the AI bottleneck holding back everything from data centres to your favourite apps.
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.
America's AI Data Centers Run on Chinese Parts. Washington Wants to Change That.
From the boxes that regulate electricity to the cables that carry data, a surprising share of the hardware keeping US AI facilities running comes from China. Costs and delays loom if that changes fast.