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10 stories taggedinfrastructure.
The Data Centre Story Just Went from Zero to Everywhere on AI2Day
In one week our coverage of AI's power and land problem jumped from one story to six, across three separate outlets. Here is what that shape actually tells us, and what would prove it real.
Driverless Diggers Are Already Moving Earth on Real US Construction Sites
Bedrock Robotics has put fully autonomous excavators to work in Texas and Nevada, with no operator in the cab. Here is what that means for construction workers and the projects they build.
Alibaba's Profit Falls 75% as the Company Bets Big on AI
The Chinese tech giant is pouring money into data centres and chips. Investors are nervous, and shares slid 4% on the news.
SoftBank bets $200 million on robots that drive diggers
Swiss startup Gravis Robotics just landed what it claims is the biggest funding round in construction robot history, with a kit that bolts onto any excavator and lets it work on its own.
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2 billion to wire AI into everyday businesses
Thrive Holdings buys traditional firms, sends in AI experts, and now wants to tackle the mountain of paperwork that slows down building roads, data centres, and power plants.
A startup called Naïve wants AI software to run your entire company, and 30,000 developers signed up to try it
Naïve just raised $28.5 million to let AI agents handle the paperwork, phone numbers, payments and cloud setup that normally eat a founder's first weeks. The real prize, though, is cutting the runaway cost of keeping those agents running.
Dili raises $21.7 million to use AI for the paperwork nightmare of America's construction boom
A startup called Dili has secured fresh funding to help infrastructure projects, think data centres and factories, stay on the right side of the overlapping federal rules that govern wages, safety and the environment.
Your ChatGPT question uses about as much electricity as a kettle boiled for one second
AI data centres ate roughly 0.5% of the world's electricity in 2025. That sounds small until you look at where those data centres actually are.
OpenAI plans to spend $750 billion on infrastructure by 2030, starting with a massive Georgia data centre
The company's first move is a 1,400-acre campus near Savannah that will draw enough electricity to power a small city, mostly from new natural gas plants.
This startup just raised $115 million to put robot excavators on building sites
TerraFirma wants one skilled operator to control an entire fleet of diggers and dozers from a screen, making each worker up to three times as productive.