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Amazon's New Texas Power Plant Could Emit More CO2 Than Any Coal Plant in America
A gas plant built to power Amazon's West Texas data center holds a pollution permit larger than any coal facility in the US. The company says its climate commitment stands, but its own emissions have risen for years.
Bipartisan Backlash: Why Little Rock Is Fighting Two Massive Data Centres
From environmental fears to land rights, communities across the US are pushing back against the giant warehouse-sized facilities that power AI. Little Rock is the latest flashpoint.
SoftBank Gave Trump's Library $50 Million. Two Months Later, It Got a Huge Federal Land Deal.
The Japanese tech giant confirmed the timeline to US senators, raising fresh questions about whether big donations to a sitting president's library can buy government favours.
Baseten Joins Hugging Face as an Inference Provider, Bringing Popular AI Models to More Developers
Developers can now run open-weight AI models through Baseten directly from the Hugging Face Hub, with no markup on costs and two billing paths to choose from.
Mirendil signs $100 million-plus Google Cloud deal to build AI that improves itself
The AI startup, founded by former Anthropic researchers, will use Google's chips and cloud infrastructure to develop systems designed to get smarter on their own over time.
Anthropic Is Building Its Own AI Chips
The company behind the Claude chatbot is hiring chip designers to make its AI faster and cheaper to run, following a path already taken by OpenAI, Google and Meta.
SpaceX Reports Record Revenue but Shocks Investors With $16 Billion AI Spending Bill
The rocket company beat earnings expectations by a wide margin, then watched its share price drop 10 percent after revealing it spent nearly $16 billion on AI infrastructure in a single quarter.
SpaceX Has Spent $329 Million on Tesla Batteries This Year. Here's Why.
The rocket company is buying industrial-scale battery storage at a pace that puts hard numbers on how tightly Elon Musk's businesses are wired together, and what that means for the AI data centers at the centre of it all.
SpaceX AI Revenue Tripled to $2.6 Billion, But the Division Still Lost $1.5 Billion
SpaceX is now a major seller of computing power to AI companies, but its AI arm is burning cash even as the broader company narrows its losses.
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.