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Firmus Pulled Its $30 Billion Australian IPO Because Investors Would Not Pay the Price
The AI data centre company, which builds facilities for OpenAI and Meta, walked away from what would have been one of Australia's largest-ever stock market listings after key investors refused to back the valuation.
The AI Boom Took Over Climate Week. Not Everyone Was Cheering.
Venture funding for climate companies crossed $14 billion in early 2026, driven by data-centre demand. Some founders think that's a problem.
AI's Debt Binge Gets More Expensive as Bond Yields Hit Near 20-Year Highs
A spike in US Treasury yields is raising the cost of the trillions of dollars in borrowing that powers the AI infrastructure build. Smaller players are already feeling the squeeze.
When Should a Company Stop Renting AI and Start Owning It?
Buying AI by the request works fine for experiments. Once it becomes a daily business operation, the maths can flip completely.
Greece's Prime Minister Says Governments Are Fighting Yesterday's Battle on AI
In San Francisco this week, Kyriakos Mitsotakis was unusually blunt: no government is ready for how fast AI will displace jobs, kids growing up with AI companions worry him more than social media bans, and he thinks frontier lab leaders who say they don't fully understand their own models deserve to be taken seriously.
Alibaba Built Its Own AI Chip and Wants 20 Gigawatts of Data Centres by 2032
At its annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, Alibaba announced the Zhenwu V900 chip, a 20-gigawatt data centre target, and confirmed its next frontier model is already in training.
Infrastructure week: why our own story count on power, chips and data centres just tripled
We ran 13 AI infrastructure pieces in the seven days to 20 September, up from 4 the week before. Here is what our own coverage looks like when the picture zooms out from models to megawatts.
Google bets 13 billion euros on Finland in its biggest European investment ever
The tech giant will pour 13 billion euros into AI data-centre infrastructure in Finland, drawn by available land, a cold climate and an unusually reliable power grid.
Why AI Agents Guzzle So Much More Power Than a Simple Chatbot
AI is shifting from quick questions and answers to agents that run for hours on their own. That shift explains the data-centre building boom, and a growing energy bill.
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.
What has to go right for the AI spending gamble to pay off
A handful of tech giants are spending at a scale that dwarfs any industry investment in history. A Wharton finance professor ran the arithmetic and the answer is both clear and sobering.
Trump Says AI Safety Is a Sick Conspiracy. Obama Says Slow Down.
Two former presidents landed on opposite sides of the AI debate this week, with Trump dismissing safety calls and Obama asking regulators to catch up before something goes wrong.