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Most Americans oppose AI data centres, but few will vote on it
A New York Times/Siena University poll finds 61 percent of likely voters against building new data centres, yet the issue barely registers when people rank what matters most in the midterms.
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.
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.
Oracle says AI agents will speed up software rollouts, not kill the software business
At its Q1 FY2027 earnings call, Oracle argued that AI assistants will make its business software easier to use and faster to deploy, while its cloud computing arm posted 60 percent revenue growth.
Jensen Huang says Nvidia will grow 70% next year. Here is what that number actually means.
The chip giant's CEO told investors he can see the future of AI spending, because almost every company building AI tells Nvidia exactly what they are buying. The math points to roughly $680 billion in revenue by the end of next year.
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.
Qualcomm Lands AWS Partnership to Build AI Data Centre Chips, Shares Jump 10%
Amazon just handed Qualcomm its second major cloud endorsement in months, and the market noticed.
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.
The World's Top AI Bosses Are in One Room. Here's What They're Saying.
Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic and more descended on Chapel Hill for the G20 Innovation Ministerial. Elon Musk predicts AI grows the global economy by a third. David Sacks says data centres can actually cut your electricity bill.
Two-year-old British AI firm Nscale is chasing $3.5 billion before a possible IPO this month
The compute startup, founded in 2024, is in talks to raise $1.5 billion in convertible notes and $2 billion from Nvidia as it eyes a stock market listing.
The Real AI Bottleneck Is Not the Chip. It Is Where the Data Lives.
AI systems are straining under real-time demands, and the weak point is not processing power. It is memory, storage, and the pipes connecting them.
Crusoe raises $3 billion at a $30 billion valuation as AI data centre demand keeps climbing
The company, which builds large-scale data centres for clients including OpenAI and Oracle, has tripled its valuation in under a year and is now weighing a stock market listing.
SB Energy files for IPO with a $3.2 billion loss and one giant customer
The AI data centre builder backed by SoftBank and its partners OpenAI and Nvidia is heading to the stock market while carrying heavy losses and a frank admission: its near-term future depends almost entirely on OpenAI.
The UK Government Has No Idea What Its Biggest Data Centres Are Actually Doing
A freedom of information request revealed that ministers cannot say who is using the UK's largest data centres or why. With AI driving a surge in electricity and water use, that gap in oversight matters.