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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.
Big Tech's gas bet could backfire badly, energy researchers warn
Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft are building massive natural gas power plants for their AI data centres. A new energy research report says prices could triple in some regions, and the companies may not be ready for the shock.
Nvidia Is Assembling a $500 Billion War Chest to Finance the AI Build-Out
The chipmaker has recruited six of Wall Street's biggest money managers to help its customers pay for data centres, power contracts and the specialised chips AI runs on.
This startup uses AI to hunt for chip materials that run cooler
Discovered Materials raised $9 million to deploy AI agents that test thousands of potential new chip materials a day, aiming to cut the heat that makes data centres so expensive to run.
People Are Pushing Back Against AI They Never Asked For, and It Is Working
From deepfake opt-outs to data centre protests, ordinary people are fed up with generative AI being forced into daily life. Companies are starting to listen.
The Data Centre Dilemma: How AI's Hunger for Power Is Reshaping British Towns
The UK government wants three times as many data centres. In Slough, locals are already living next to metal-clad giants that drink water and burn electricity at a scale that rivals whole neighbourhoods.
Bipartisan Backlash: Why Little Rock Is Fighting Two Massive Data Centres
From environmental fears to land rights, communities across the US are pushing back against the giant warehouse-sized facilities that power AI. Little Rock is the latest flashpoint.
Australia's Government Is Writing the Rules for AI Data Centres. Can It Actually Work?
A senior minister is talking about copyright scraping, public distrust and national standards for data centres. What the policy push means for ordinary Australians.
SoftBank Gave Trump's Library $50 Million. Two Months Later, It Got a Huge Federal Land Deal.
The Japanese tech giant confirmed the timeline to US senators, raising fresh questions about whether big donations to a sitting president's library can buy government favours.
The Power Grid Is Struggling. A New AI Course Wants to Train the Engineers Who Can Fix It
America's electrical grid was built for steadier times. Now AI tools are being drafted to keep the lights on, and a new online programme is teaching engineers how to use them.
SpaceX Is Really a Satellite Firm That Rents Out Computer Power. The Rockets Are Almost a Side Note.
The company's first public earnings report shows Starlink internet and data-centre leasing dwarfing actual space business, and Elon Musk's grand orbital plans look a lot like wishful thinking.
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 puts hard numbers on how tightly Elon Musk's businesses are wired together, and what that means for the AI data centers at the centre of 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.
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.