#AI infrastructure
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Anthropic signs a $10 billion cloud deal with startup Volta to power its Claude AI
A six-year agreement will see a brand-new Norwegian data centre feed computing power to Anthropic, backed by Nvidia's latest chips and a crypto-mining firm.
US Officials Are Drafting a Ban on Chinese Datacenter Components Over AI Fears
The Trump administration wants to block imports of key Chinese fiber-optic parts that keep AI datacenters running. Here is what that means and why it matters.
Texas Orders Audit of New Data Centers Before They Can Join the Power Grid
Governor Greg Abbott wants to know exactly how much electricity, water and community disruption each new facility will demand, and no one yet knows how long that review will take.
The AI Data Center That Fits in a Box: Inside Runware's Sonic Inference Pod
A startup wants to replace giant, water-hungry data centers with small, portable computing units that can be shipped anywhere there is a power socket. Here is what it is building, and whether it holds up.
A start-up wants to replace undersea internet cables with space lasers
Endeavor Optical Networks has raised $10.75 million to beam data between continents using laser-equipped satellites, aiming for speeds that rival the fibre cables on the ocean floor.
America Has a Data Center Problem, and AI Made It Worse
From MAGA rallies to environmental protests, ordinary Americans are furious about the AI infrastructure being built in their backyards. Here is why it happened.
Zuckerberg Wants to Sell Spare AI Computing Power, But Admits Meta Doesn't Know How Yet
Meta is sitting on enormous computing capacity and getting premium offers to lease it out. Zuckerberg says he's tempted, but selling too much now could kneecap the company's own AI plans.
SK Hynix posts record profits but its shares still drop 6.5%, here's why
The South Korean memory chip maker beat almost every measure of growth, yet Wall Street wanted even more. What that tells us about AI's voracious appetite for computer memory.
SpaceX Plans to Remove xAI's Illegal Turbines, But Not Until Mid-2027
The company running Elon Musk's AI data centers near Memphis says it will tear out 69 unpermitted gas turbines, replacing them with a permanent power plant. Nearby residents, already living in one of the most polluted regions in the US, will wait at least two more years for that to happen.
Five Platforms Building the Backbone of Physical AI in 2026
From simulation to data factories, these are the infrastructure layers that turn a trained model into a robot that can actually do a job.
Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded Aircraft: Why AI's Next Problem Is Waste, Not Power
The AI industry spent years racing to build smarter models and buy more chips. A quieter problem is now taking shape: the expensive hardware sitting in data centres is often doing very little, and nobody has been asked to fix that.
Nscale pays $1.65 billion to buy AI software startup Anyscale
A British AI cloud company is snapping up the team behind a popular tool for running big AI workloads, in a bet that owning the whole stack, from servers to software, is where the money is.
MCP Gets Its Biggest Update Yet, and the Goal Is Letting AI Work at Company Scale
A key change to the open standard that helps AI tools talk to outside software removes a bottleneck that made large deployments tricky. Here is what changed and why it matters.
LinkedIn Is Freezing Its AI Data Center Spending for a Full Year
While rivals pour billions into new chips and server farms, LinkedIn says it doubled the efficiency of its existing hardware and saved $24 million in the process.
Britain's data centres face upfront fees to join the electricity grid queue
Ofgem wants data centre operators to put real money on the table before they can reserve a grid connection. Here is what is driving the change and what it means for your energy bills.