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CloudThe hidden decisions behind every AI request
The choice of model is only the beginning of an AI request. Take an insurance claim moving through an AI agent. It reads a photo of a damaged bumper,…
A Startup Has a Plan to Make Water From Air Using Data Centers’ Waste Heat
Atoco’s new machines use specialized materials that can harvest water from some of the driest air on Earth without using…
'Need for data centres outweighs other considerations': local council in the London commuter belt approves Amazon's massive M25 hub despite air quality fears
Amazon secures approval for 18-acre M25 data centre despite pollution concerns, 27 generators and previous planning disputes…
Massive 1.5 million sq ft data center campus planned for West Texas — bringing the state's total regional AI investment to $12 billion
Crusoe plans two $4.8 billion Jayton data centers, expanding its West Texas infrastructure alongside major projects in Childress…
US counties are desperately trying to stop data centers from taking over: A look at how Charlotte, Pima County, and Guildford County are dealing with the onslaught - with an interesting catch
Guilford, Pima, and Charlotte are all hitting pause on data centers, but the fine print indicates not one of these moratoriums…
CloudGenerate $6 trillion in annual revenue or face a major collapse — AI data center costs are doubling every 12 months
Regulators withdrew their completeness finding on ATC's application after 564 changes were filed, delaying grid power to Oracle's Wisconsin AI campus.
Trump defends data centers in Ohio, warns they’ll go to China if US turns them away
"There's so much money to be made for Ohio. You can’t just turn them off. They’ll go to China,” Trump told supporters at an Ohio…
Trump defends data centers in Ohio as he rallies to boost Jon Husted in a tight Senate race (World)
Trump took several minutes during his campaign rally in southwestern Ohio to promote his administration's action on data centers,…
Trump defends data centers in Ohio as he rallies to boost Jon Husted in a tight Senate race
VANDALIA, Ohio (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday defended data centers that power artificial intelligence projects but…
A hyperscaler wants to buy a site almost 3X bigger than Central Park in Osceola County, Florida — as its residents worry about a future surrounded by data centers
Residents in Florida’s Osceola County are concerned about plans for a huge 2,000-plus acre data center.
CloudUK government reveals £90m plan to warm homes with data center waste heat, with 750,000 homes getting cheaper heating
Waste heat from data centers could generate cheaper hot water as part of a “clean heat” initiative in the UK, which also involves piping hot water…
Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers
Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said the company's new stationary power plants were no longer in Crusoe's near-term plans.
CloudThis new UK domestic 'data furnace' from Heata can convert cloud computing waste heat into free hot water
Heata is turning data processing into hot water, using home-installed business servers to heat domestic water supplies.
Most Americans now oppose data centers in some way as tide continues to turn on AI technology
US citizens are feeling worse about data centers than they were just half a year ago, and it doesn't matter which party they vote…
CloudThe EU will force data centers to disclose how much water and energy they are using
New European rules could mean that even more data centers need to report how much energy and water they're using.
AI Models Built From Rat Brains Just Got Closer to Reality
The Biological Computing Company is bringing its AI tools to Amazon Web Services in a major boost for a once-fringe field that…
CloudGoogle’s Gemini hacked three companies during Irregular AI ‘capture-the-flag’ testing — agents broke containment and guessed passwords to hack computer systems
Google says AI agents broke out of a testing environment and hacked three third-party companies.
A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers
Jev, a new kind of AI model, is showing developers a cheaper and faster path to software intelligence.
CloudGoogle, Nvidia, and Emerald AI launch Alliance to advance data centers that dynamically adjust electricity use based on grid conditions
The AI Energy Management Alliance wants to lay the framework for how future data centers can use energy more sympathetically with the grid.
US data center natural gas consumption could surpass Germany and Japan combined by 2035
America's data centers could consume as much natural gas per day as the entire of Germany and Japan combined.
CloudFleeing Data Center Backlash at Home, American AI Startup Sets Up Shop In Saudi Arabia
One country’s controversy is another’s golden opportunity.
As That Whole ‘Tilly Norwood’ Thing Peters Out, AI Acting Achieves Unsettling Ubiquity on Chinese Phone Screens
Consumers evidently don't need "stars" to get them to gorge on AI content.
CloudTrump’s EPA wants to let data centers hide their air pollution
Just as new data centers face growing backlash from neighboring communities, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to make it harder…
China’s data centres will reportedly use more power than South Korea by 2030
In 2025, Chinese data centers were expected to use 479 TWh/year by 2030. Now, they're expected to use 774 TWh/year by 2030.
CloudWorld humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames
Record-breaking robot races are less substantial than household chore challenges.
'Same compute, fewer resources - More compute, same energy': AMD says it is on track to make AI four times more energy efficient
AMD says two of its 2030 racks will match 570 from 2024 using twenty times less power and reducing carbon intensity by…
CloudSouth Korean city bets on the ocean to solve its AI data center crisis — but this is only the beginning
Ulsan and KIOST are testing a $37 million underwater data center cooled by cold seawater instead of electricity.
Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up
There's about to be a big fight to secure access to space.
CloudHealthtech firm CareCloud reveals March 2026 data breach impacted 3.7 million patients
Impacted CareCloud patients are being notified, but we don't know what information was taken.
Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers
Relativity Networks deals in hollow-core fiber, a rarely deployed technology that allows data to be transmitted 30% faster than…
CloudCherokee Nation Bans Hyperscale Data Center Projects on Tribal-Owned Lands
The tribe cited concerns over energy, water use, and the relatively small number of permanent jobs these massive facilities create.
AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anthropic shares
The former OpenAI researcher’s fund was forced to unwind public equities after leveraged public bets plummeted. But he still has…
CloudMark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years
As Meta pours billions into AI infrastructure and agents, Zuckerberg is working to convince investors that the payoff will be worth the price.
AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous
It's earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate, to as much as…
CloudAMD's Venice is the first 2nm x86 server chip, but the stack doesn't fully ship until 2027
AMD's Zen 6 Venice EPYC is a 2nm, 256-core, 512-thread juggernaut which comes into play at the same time as Nvidia is gunning for the data center CPU…
250 Eiffel Towers' worth of waste: The AI boom's toxic hardware problem
Chips, servers, cables, and more could compound an already massive problem - here's who it affects and what's being done about it.
CloudOpenAI is spending $30 billion on a new mega 3.2 GW data center in Georgia — and it's trying really hard to quell local opposition
OpenAI really wants to avoid the local opposition seen at other data center projects, and is willing to offer commitments to the locals to ensure its…
White House wants to shift billions of dollars of research funding away from ‘slow consensus peer review’ and into individual scientists and AI
Moving funding to individual scientists and AI could undermine US scientific credibility at home and abroad.
CloudUK AI data centers could be given water priority during heatwaves and hosepipe bans — trade body warns that usage hasn’t been factored into AI growth zone projections
The trade body representing UK water companies says that the UK government hasn't properly estimated projections for AI water usage.
This British farm is running AI on pig muck — and it could lead to a major windfall for farmers energy income, earning ten times more than the grid
This company is using renewable energy from pig slurry to power decentralized AI data centers, significantly increasing income…
CloudNuclear startup Valar Atomics in talks to raise new funding at $6B valuation
The potential deal highlights a growing trend of complex, multi-stage funding rounds that mask true entry prices.
Qualcomm targets Nvidia, AMD, Huawei with Dragonfly AI accelerator rack loaded with 43TB of LPDDR5x, future generations set to smash 7PB/s bandwidth
Qualcomm's upcoming rack-scale inference platform, Dragonfly, comes with impressive numbers as it chooses to skip HBM for its…
CloudWhy is Apple asking me to pay more for Big Tech’s AI obsession?
Tim Cook recently said price increases were "unavoidable" and described the company's pricing as "unsustainable." The 16-inch MacBook Pro saw its…
Europeans Are Buying Teslas Again, Surrendering the Easiest Front in the War on American Big Tech
Tesla is hiring new workers and ramping up production at its German factory to meet demand.
CloudThis Utah State Senator Chaired the Agency That Approves Data Centers. Voters Just Fired Him
Data center backlash is becoming a potent political force.
Oracle laid off 21,000 employees over the past year, citing AI as one of the reasons
Oracle's latest filings say it employs 141,000 people, down from 162,000 last year.
CloudForget Mars, SpaceX Is Becoming a Data Center Company
The company's new deal with AI startup Reflection also hints at a bright future for open source AI.
Nvidia Touts ‘100% Reduction in Water Use’ With New Data Center Design
That’s a long way from 100% sustainable, though.
CloudA great new lease of life for your old smartphone? Google teams up with university researchers to create low-cost data centers out of 2,000 old Pixel phones
Google and the University of California, San Diego transformed retired Pixel smartphones into computing clusters, exploring lower-cost data center…
‘Workers need to be involved in these conversations’: Amazon engineers to be investigated after criticising company’s AI data center buildout – Amazon “may or may not take action based on what we find.”
A group of Amazon employees spoke out at a council meeting, and now some of them are being investigated.
CloudAI Pioneer Yann LeCun Calls xAI a ‘Failure,’ Reignites Feud With Elon Musk
Musk: Oh yeah? Could a failure of an AI company do this? (Produces infinite CSAM)
China wants to spend nearly $300 billion on a national data center grid — all powered by domestically made silicon and looking to outperform the US
China plans a $295 billion AI data center grid relying heavily on domestic chips, telecom operators, and government-backed…
CloudThe European Union reveals details of its tech sovereignty package
New proposals will see the EU further invest in European startups and companies as it looks to strengthen its homegrown tech footprint.
'We have supply for very, very robust growth, but we're still supply constrained': Jensen Huang says Nvidia has enough CPU and GPU supply to grow AI
Nvidia's supply chain is looking relatively strong, despite constrained supply and pressure from Vera Rubin, RTX Spark
CloudDeranged Robotics Cult at Duke Accidentally Summons Lovecraftian Outer God
Guest blogger HP Lovecraft writes on the latest advances in robotics.
Elon Musk Is Already Preparing to Evict Anthropic from SpaceX’s Data Center
Sounds like those CPUs are available to the highest bidder... unless Elon figures out how to make a successful AI model.
CloudAmazon Thinks the Future of Data Centers Depends on a Technical Problem It Just Solved
The tech giant says a breakthrough in data-center networking has dramatically accelerated the flow of information through its massive cloud…
Corsair's Pro lineup is the company’s answer to the growing demand for AI workstations and servers
The Corsair Pro lineup features various configurations, including Nvidia's Grace Blackwell Ultra (GB300) GPUs.
CloudUS Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
More than 1,000 pages of unpublished reports from the Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and fusion centers obtained by WIRED show a national…
As Grok flounders, SpaceX bets future on beating Big Tech at AI
SpaceX IPO filing pitches orbital data centers as Grok lags rival AI services.
CloudThe Endless AI guitar pedal has potential
I'm not sure anyone was really asking for an AI guitar pedal. But it was inevitable that someone would build one. One of the first to take the plunge…
The Company Behind the Flipper Zero Hacking Tool Is Making a Cyberdeck
That was the all-too common sentiment Flipper co-founder and CEO Pavel Zhovner shared with Gizmodo as he talked up his company’s…
CloudCoatue has a plan to buy up land for data centers, possibly for Anthropic
Coatue, one of the biggest names in venture capital, has a new venture that is reportedly buying land near large power sources.
'It’s very unusual for business to grow this fast': Even Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is surprised at AWS cloud success — and AI domination is next
AWS reports its best growth rate in 15 quarters, and at 28%, it's propping up total Amazon revenue by quite a margin.
Cloud'The ocean is really unlimited in terms of how much energy is available': No land, no fuel, no cables — how wave-powered ocean platforms could tackle the power needs of AI data centers
A startup is developing floating platforms that use wave energy to power offshore AI data centers, reducing emissions, but faces potential durability…
How Project Maven taught the military to love AI
In the first 24 hours of the assault on Iran, the US military struck more than 1,000 targets, nearly double the scale of the…
Cloud"Push them to the limit": MIT researchers almost double SSD performance 'for free' but only for data centers
MIT software boosts SSD speeds by shifting data between drives in large storage clusters, but it's only for use in data centers.
AI backlash is coming for elections
Ask Americans how they feel about AI and most say they have concerns. Communities have mounted resistance to data center…
CloudSatellite and drone images reveal big delays in US data center construction
Data centers face construction delays and energy bottleneck as resistance grows.
The UK Launches Its $675 Million Sovereign AI Fund
In a bid to minimize dependence on technology from other countries, the UK government is plowing resources into homegrown AI…
CloudMy two Raspberry Pi boards cost as much as a laptop now - and AI is to blame
We live in a time when two 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 boards cost the same as a MacBook Neo. Here's why - and how to save.
Backup Files and Your Entire Digital Life (2026): Hard Drives, Cloud-Based Tools, and Tips
Backups are boring, but they’ll save your bacon. Here’s how to make sure your data lives on, even when your PC doesn’t.
CloudAI chip startup Rebellions raises $400 million at $2.3B valuation in pre-IPO round
The startup, which is planning to go public later this year, designs chips specifically for AI inference, another challenger to Nvidia's dominance.
Meta will fund seven new natural gas plants to power its biggest data center yet
Meta will essentially foot the power bill for the $27 billion mega data center it's building in Louisiana. On Friday, the Wall…
CloudBernie Sanders Introduces Bill to Pause AI Data Center Construction, Warns of ‘Cataclysmic Changes’
The progressive lawmaker is introducing a bill calling for a national moratorium on data center construction until new AI regulations are enacted.
Anthropic releases safer Claude Code 'auto mode' to avoid mass file deletions and other AI snafus
Anthropic has begun previewing "auto mode" inside of Claude Code. The company describes the new feature as a middle path between…
CloudStartup Gimlet Labs is solving the AI inference bottleneck in a surprisingly elegant way
Gimlet Labs just raised an $80 million Series A for tech that lets AI run across NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, ARM, Cerebras and d-Matrix chips, simultaneously.
An exclusive tour of Amazon’s Trainium lab, the chip that’s won over Anthropic, OpenAI, even Apple
Shortly after Amazon announced its $50 billion investment in OpenAI, AWS invited me on a private tour of the chip lab at the…
CloudGoogle signs data center deal which includes a 20-year commitment to add new clean power
Google's prospective Michigan-based data center could give the Detroit area access to clean energy.
AI data centers could reduce power draw on demand, study says
Apparently, AI data centers are capable of sucking less (power, that is). A recent UK trial demonstrated that they can adjust…
CloudIowa county adopts strict zoning rules for data centers, but residents still worry
Though the rules are among the strictest in the US, locals say they aren't enough.
The new Nvidia age has begun — first Vera Rubin AI chips are rolling out to customers, now let's see what they can do with it
Nvidia’s Vera Rubin AI chips reach first customers, combining CPU, GPU, and networking for high-performance AI workloads in data…
CloudSophia Space raises $10M seed to demo novel space computers
The company's modular computer tiles offer a new vision for space data centers.
HP says the memory chip crunch isn't going anywhere soon - and also warns of PC sales slump
AI-induced memory shortages and increasing costs won't make PCs cheaper any time soon, HP warns.
Google claims it's building data centers that barely use any water
Google is building another data center in Texas and says this one will use "advanced air-cooling technology" to limit water consumption. Google is…
Sam Altman says ChatGPT water use claims are 'completely untrue' — but admits AI energy use is a concern
Sam Altman dismisses viral claims about ChatGPT’s water use — but the bigger question of AI’s growing energy and environmental…
CloudAmazon Reportedly Pins the Blame for AI-Caused Outage on Humans
Allegedly, the coding assistant decided to “delete and recreate the environment” that was causing problems.
An AI data center boom is fueling Redwood’s energy storage business
Redwood Materials says its new energy storage business is the fastest growing unit within the company.
CloudGoogle Cloud’s VP for startups on reading your ‘check engine light’ before it’s too late
Startup founders are being pushed to move faster than ever, using AI while facing tighter funding, rising infrastructure costs, and more pressure to…
SpaceX vets raise $50M Series A for data center links
Mesh aims to mass-produce optical transceivers for AI data centers.
CloudIndependent auditors confirm NordVPN never stores your data – for the 6th time
NordVPN’s latest no-logs audit once again validates the company’s long-standing privacy claim: it doesn’t retain any identifying logs of its users.…
Oh dear - the recent TikTok outage was due to an Oracle data center going down
Severe winter weather caused a power outage at an Oracle data center, knocking many TikTok features offline for days.
CloudPlanned Saudi megacity 'The Line', designed for 9 million people across 170km, could be redesigned as a far smaller data center
Saudi Arabia’s The Line project shifts from a massive residential city to an AI-focused industrial hub due to costs, climate, and fiscal pressures.
Microsoft reports strong cloud earnings in Q2 as gaming declines
Microsoft just posted the second quarter of its 2026 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $81.3 billion in revenue…
CloudTikTok Data Center Outage Triggers Trust Crisis for New US Owners
The technical failure coincided with TikTok’s ownership transition, leading users to question whether videos criticizing ICE raids in Minnesota were…
TikTok says a power outage is causing issues with the app in the US
If your TikTok feed has felt a little off lately, it's not just you. TikTok says it's working to fix its service in the US…
CloudOpenAI promises to keep Stargate data center costs down - so your utility bills shouldn't go sky high...probably
OpenAI’s Stargate plan funds local energy infrastructure to prevent electricity bill spikes while supporting large-scale AI tools.
From invisibility cloaks to AI chips: Neurophos raises $110M to build tiny optical processors for inferencing
Neurophos is taking a crack at solving the AI industry's power efficiency problem with an optical chip that uses a composite…