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Amazon is investing in a new gas-burning power plant in Pecos County, Texas, to power its data center, with a permit allowing up to 33 million tons of CO2 emissions—more than the largest US coal plant. The report highlights the growing environmental impact of AI data centers.
Amazon is reportedly building a massive 7.65-gigawatt gas power plant in Texas to power an AI data center, which would become the largest pollution source in the U.S., contradicting its net-zero climate pledge.
Trump criticizes Texas Governor Greg Abbott's pause on data center approvals, calling it a mistake, while Abbott defends the move citing power and water usage concerns amid surging electricity demand.
ModCon 2026, Modular's annual developer conference on AI compute, takes place August 18, 2026 in San Francisco, featuring keynotes, workshops, and a fireside chat with AI analysts from SemiAnalysis and Artificial Analysis.
Oklo achieved nuclear criticality less than a year after groundbreaking, highlighting the growing importance of energy infrastructure as AI drives electricity demand.
A tweet outlines Elon Musk's vision of building a massive Terafab chip manufacturing facility to power AI, robotics, and automation, turning AI into physical infrastructure that could reshape the 2030s.
Anthropic plans to build in-house silicon expertise to design custom hardware for Claude, aiming to reduce reliance on Nvidia and improve performance through co-design of models and chips.
SoftBank donated $50 million to Trump's presidential library in January, months before securing a federal lease for a massive AI data center in Ohio, prompting ethics concerns from senators.
Argues that AI model performance is now commoditized, so the competitive moat has shifted to the 'harness' around models. Highlights pi as a light open-source local harness and calls the missing model-neutral cloud harness the next battleground.
Nashville officials approved eminent domain to block a proposed $700M data center near the zoo, citing animal welfare and community concerns; the move reflects growing pushback against data center development across the U.S.
Analyzes how per-token LLM pricing creates incentives for verbose output, and proposes low-entropy prompt constraints (FAOA) to reduce cost and increase semantic density.
Banks are preparing to offload $15bn of debt financing Anthropic's data centre, a project backed by Google.
Anthropic is building a team to design its own custom AI chips, aiming to co-design hardware and models for greater efficiency as demand for Claude rises. The move follows OpenAI, Google, and Meta in pursuing in-house silicon.
Google DeepMind CSO Jasjeet Sekhon discusses how AI infrastructure spending is driven by hopes for recursive self-improvement, citing AlphaEvolve's bounded gains like reducing Gemini training time by 1%.
The author argues that the traditional enterprise AI stack is obsolete, claiming a $599 Mac mini running Ollama can handle 80% of AI workloads locally for a fraction of the cost of renting cloud GPUs.
SpaceX's massive capital spending, including $18.4 billion in the latest quarter, is driving AI-related revenue growth through terrestrial computing infrastructure, AI deals, and plans for orbital data centers, with projected annualized recurring revenue of $100 billion by December.
Google Cloud API Gateway now offers model routing in Public Preview, providing a serverless ingress layer that accepts OpenAI-compatible requests and dynamically routes them to Gemini, Claude, or OpenAI models.
Elon Musk announced that SpaceX will use Nvidia GPUs exclusively, citing they are the best.
Texas Governor Abbott halts new data center grid connections amid surging power demand, citing community impacts and straining ERCOT's plans, while behind-the-meter gas generation remains an unregulated alternative.
Anthropic signs a reported $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta to secure 133 MW of compute capacity over six years, with Bitdeer building a Norway data center powered by Nvidia Vera Rubin systems.