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Nobody Wants a Data Centre Next Door. So Who Decides Where They Go?
Communities across the UK and the world are pushing back against the vast, noisy buildings that keep AI running. Their complaints are real. So is the problem of stopping them.
NVIDIA's New Vera Rubin Chip Does 30 Times More AI Work Per Watt Than Its Predecessor
Fresh benchmark data puts NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 far ahead on energy efficiency for the complex, multi-step AI tasks that companies are building into their products at speed.
Amazon Is Buying Two Million More Nvidia Chips as AI Demand Blows Past Forecasts
The two companies are deepening a partnership that now covers warehouse robots and cloud software, not just the chips that power AI.
More Than 15 Candidates Have Signed a Pledge on AI Safety and Data Centres. Here Is What It Says.
A new political pact asks candidates to back mandatory safety reviews for AI, a share of AI profits for workers, and a crackdown on sweetheart deals for data centre builders.
Nvidia plans to raise AI server prices by more than 15% for major customers
The chipmaker is set to push up the cost of its most advanced AI server systems next year, hit by soaring memory chip bills it can no longer absorb alone.
China's AI Boom Has a Surprising Home: A Grassland City in Inner Mongolia
Nearly 100 data centres have opened or begun construction in Ulanqab since 2016. DeepSeek, ByteDance and Alibaba are all building there. A water crisis is already brewing.
Historian Jill Lepore thinks the 'artificial state' is doomed. Here's what she means.
With the midterms less than three months away, a leading American historian says the public backlash against AI and data centres could reshape the November vote.
Wait, are we actually cooling AI data centres with pee? Sort of, yes
A cheeky beer advert starring Jason Kelce accidentally landed on a real solution to one of AI's biggest environmental problems. Here is what the science actually says.
Why Silicon Valley Still Does Not Understand the AI Backlash
More than half of Americans under 30 are more worried than excited about AI. Tech CEOs are diagnosing the wrong problem, and ordinary people are starting to notice.
AI Was Meant to Win Us Over. New Data Shows It's Doing the Opposite.
From Pew Research surveys to Republican Party memos, the signals are stacking up: public trust in AI is falling, not rising, and the industry is finally starting to say so out loud.
Wall Street Wants to Turn Nvidia Chips Into a New Asset Class. Here's Why That's Complicated.
Six of the world's biggest financial firms are joining Nvidia to bundle $500 billion in chip financing. The pitch is that GPUs are now investable assets like buildings or bonds. The catch: Nvidia's own CEO said something very different about chip lifespans just last year.
NVIDIA Will Back a $600 Billion AI Computing Deal with OpenAI Anchored by a 20-Year Ohio Campus
The chipmaker is guaranteeing portions of lease and power costs at a giant data centre site in Portsmouth, Ohio, where OpenAI will run what NVIDIA says could eventually hold 1.5 million of its processors per generation.
Three ex-SpaceX engineers are building a robot factory to make steel parts for AI data centres
Their startup, 1872, opened its first facility in Cincinnati this month. The goal: automate most of the steel fabrication process by 2027, starting with the frames that hold modular data centres together.
Groq raises $350 million after ditching its own chips for Nvidia's
Once an Nvidia rival, the startup is now an Nvidia customer. Here is what happened and what it means for the cloud companies racing to run your AI.
Scottish Police Warn of 'Great Deal of Public Opposition' to New Data Centre Near Edinburgh
A planned facility in Larbert has prompted police to call for serious security measures before construction even begins, as community pushback grows across Scotland.