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Neighbors in Virginia are distressed by the constant high-pitched noise from natural gas turbines powering a local data center, leading them to use mattresses and plexiglass to block the sound.
Oracle has laid off 21,000 employees amid a shift towards AI and cloud services, financing its data center expansion through significant debt despite investor concerns.
Virginia passed a first-of-its-kind electricity consumption tax on data centers, effective July 2026, with a $600M annual cap, as policymakers balance AI-driven power demand and infrastructure costs.
Analyzes hiring data across major AI labs to infer strategic directions, noting xAI's focus on scientific tutors, Nvidia's data center push, and OpenAI's engineering growth.
SpaceX has signed a computing power deal with open-source AI startup Reflection, worth up to $6.3 billion, giving Reflection access to Nvidia GB300s via SpaceX's Colossus data center. The deal highlights SpaceX's expansion into selling computing capacity and the growing momentum of open-source AI.
Nvidia claims its new fully liquid-cooled data center design for the Rubin generation can reduce water usage to near zero by running servers hotter and using liquid cooling.
Elon Musk reacts to NVIDIA's claim that data center water usage is only 0.2% of daily US water usage and decreasing.
Chevron announces a 20-year power purchase agreement with Microsoft to develop a co-located natural gas power facility in West Texas, delivering approximately 2.67 GW to a Microsoft data center to support AI growth.
A newsletter covering the world's deepest subsea tunnel and how flexible data centers could ease grid strain from AI.
NVIDIA's Rubin generation AI servers achieve 100% liquid cooling with a 45°C coolant temperature, drastically reducing energy and water consumption in data centers.
A data center in Utah was approved despite widespread public opposition by exploiting a state entity called MIDA, which operates outside normal regulatory channels. The mechanism is seen as replicable in other states.
TerraPower and Meta have announced an agreement to develop up to eight Natrium advanced nuclear plants (345 MW each) to power Meta's data centers, with initial units expected as early as 2032, marking Meta's largest support of advanced nuclear technologies and first direct investment in new nuclear build.
Musk's incentive targets at SpaceX are extremely ambitious, including a company valuation of $7.5 trillion, building a permanent Mars city of 1 million people, and operating data centers in space that consume more than 1000 times the electricity of all data centers on Earth.
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board commits up to $741 million to Indian data center operator CtrlS, betting on India's growing role in AI infrastructure. The deal is part of a broader global race to build data centers for AI workloads.
The U.S. Justice Department is attempting to block a lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI for operating a power plant without permits, arguing that the data center's gas turbines are crucial for national security, including the war in Iran.
Amazon Web Services announces a multibillion-dollar data center campus in Montgomery County, Missouri, to support cloud and AI workloads, creating hundreds of jobs and investing in sustainability and community initiatives.
The U.S. government is reportedly allowing the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act (FDCEA) to expire, removing key cybersecurity and sustainability standards for federal data centers amidst the AI boom and community backlash.
Google announces a $1.5 billion investment to expand its data center campus in Jackson County, Alabama, along with a $2 million Energy Impact Fund and $550,000 for local STEM education kits.
This year, protests have blocked or delayed $130 billion worth of data center projects across the US, with communities increasingly adopting an opposition playbook. The trend is expected to impact midterm elections as people gain political power through local resistance.
OpenAI is in talks to lease a massive 10-gigawatt data center in Ohio, backed by Nvidia as a financial guarantor, with costs potentially reaching $500 billion. The deal coincides with OpenAI's confidential IPO filing to fund expanding computing needs.