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The EPA wants to let data centers get air permits without telling you they exist
A proposed rule change would strip away the federal requirement for public notice before industrial sites, including AI data centers, receive pollution permits. Residents may not find out until construction has already started.
Meta Is Quietly Testing Robots Inside Its Data Centers, and Workers Are Worried
Robotic arms, cable-swappers, and button-pressing sticks are already running trials at Meta's biggest data center campus. The humans who work there are paying close attention.
Anthropic Signs $45 Billion Computing Deal with British Startup Nscale
The AI company behind Claude is locking up computing power at a pace that suggests it expects AI demand to keep climbing hard through the rest of the decade.
OpenAI's Head of Data Centers Has Left the Company, Adding to a Long List of Senior Departures
Chris Malone, who oversaw OpenAI's data center strategy during a critical period of infrastructure growth, left last week. He is at least the 13th senior executive to exit the company in 2026.
Hollow-core fiber could let data centers spread farther apart without slowing down
A startup called Relativity Networks just raised $22 million to roll out a type of fiber cable that sends data 30% faster than standard glass-core lines. The idea: give AI data centers room to breathe without paying a speed penalty.
Nvidia puts $1.5 billion into the data center company behind OpenAI's giant Ohio facility
The chip maker will also extend up to $105 billion in credit to help build a site that could eventually draw as much power as a small city.
Armenia Just Opened the Biggest AI Computing Hub in the Former Soviet Region
A company called Firebird has switched on a large AI factory in Armenia, backed by Nvidia and CoreWeave, with plans to expand across Central Asia and beyond.
A data-center parts maker replaced all hand welding with 58 robots. Here's what happened.
Tate Inc. says a 12-times jump in per-welder output and an end to costly rework followed its shift to cloud-connected robotic welding across three U.S. factories.
Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-Word AI Manifesto: What He Actually Said
The Meta chief published a sweeping essay laying out his vision for 'personal superintelligence' for everyone. Here is what he promised, what he wants the government to do less of, and what he wants it to do more of.
A US Lawmaker Wants Communities to Have the Right to Reject AI Data Centers
Representative Ro Khanna is pushing a 'Data Center Bill of Rights' that would let neighborhoods block new facilities over electricity costs, water use and proximity to homes.
Amazon's Texas Data Center Could Become America's Biggest Climate Polluter
A planned natural gas power plant in Pecos County is permitted to release 33 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, more than any other single power plant in the United States.
Red State Voters Are Protesting AI Data Centers, and It's Scrambling American Politics
A unanimous vote in Hernando County, Florida to halt new data center construction is just one sign of a spreading, bipartisan anger at the buildings powering the AI boom.
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.
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.