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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 shows just how tightly Elon Musk's businesses are wired together, and what that means for the AI data centers powering it all.
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.
OpenAI Flew Influencers to a Luxury Retreat. The Backlash Was Louder Than the Content.
The company's first brand trip invited career creators to a $2,000-a-night nature resort. What followed was a public argument about AI jobs, data centres, and who is being paid to make you feel good about artificial intelligence.
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.
OpenAI's luxury influencer retreat sparks backlash over AI's environmental and ethical costs
A farm-to-table weekend in upstate New York was meant to win over content creators. Instead, it handed critics a very photogenic target.
Amazon's cloud business is booming. But whose money is paying for it?
Amazon beat earnings forecasts and raised its spending plans to $220 billion. Investors cheered. The catch: a lot of that cloud revenue flows straight from AI companies that are still burning cash.
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.
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.
AI's Money Problem: Google's Ballooning Costs Spook Investors Across the Whole Industry
Google just admitted it will spend up to $205 billion this year, more than it previously said it would spend at the high end. That miscalculation is rattling investors, and the pressure is spreading to every major AI company.
AI Chip Stocks Tumble as Investors Worry About the Cost of the AI Boom
Samsung and SK Hynix each lost more than 10% of their value in a single day, dragging South Korea's stock market to a three-month low, as doubts grow about how AI companies will pay for their massive data centre build-outs.
Nvidia and SK Hynix sign a $500 billion deal to lock down AI memory supply
The agreement covers specialised memory chips that every powerful AI processor needs, and it comes with plans for massive new data centres in South Korea.
Verizon Signs a $1 Billion Deal With Google and Is Turning Old Phone Offices Into Mini Data Centres
The phone company wants a slice of the AI spending boom, and it's starting with dark fibre cables and gutted copper wires.
Fusion power, crumbling grids and hungry data centres: TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 maps out AI's energy crisis
A three-day conference in San Francisco this October will gather fusion scientists, grid engineers and data-centre operators to answer one urgent question: where does all the electricity come from?