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Google has held discussions with SpaceX about launching test hardware for data centers that would orbit the Earth. The talks surfaced this week. They signal how two of techno...

Georgia Data Center Drained 30 Million Gallons Unnoticed as Residents Faced Drought Warnings

Residents in an Atlanta suburb noticed their taps ran weaker than usual. Some received official notices urging them to stop watering lawns. Others wondered why conservation f...

OpenAI’s Michigan Data Center Push Crushes Local Resistance

In the rolling farmland of Saline Township, Michigan, a small community of fewer than 3,000 people believed it had drawn a line. Its planning commission and township board bo...

Maryland Ratepayers Hit With $2 Billion AI Grid Tab for Virginia Data Centers

Maryland residents face an extra $1.6 billion in electricity bills over the next decade. The reason sits mostly outside their borders. Massive data centers in Northern Virgin...

Oracle Abandons Gas Turbines for Massive New Mexico AI Campus

Oracle Corp. once eyed a straightforward fix for the staggering power needs of its artificial intelligence ambitions. Build on-site natural gas generation. Run the turbines h...

How Building Trades Unions Became Tech’s Unlikely Partner in the AI Data Center Boom

Rob Bair stands before skeptical town officials and residents worried about power demands and rising bills. The president of the Pennsylvania Building and Construction Trades...

Arm Positions Data Centers as Future Revenue King Amid AI Buildout Frenzy

Arm Holdings signaled a major shift this week. Its data center operations stand poised to eclipse every other part of the business before long. The news comes as hyperscalers...

Samsung’s Floating AI Power Play: Barges, Baseload and the Race Past Gridlock

Samsung Heavy Industries recently put a scale model on display. The vessel represents more than a shipbuilder's experiment. It signals a shift in how the biggest AI players h...

Gigawatt Data Centers: AI’s Power Surge Risks Blackouts and Grid Overhaul

A near-miss in Virginia exposed the fragility. Nine data centers switched to backup power during a grid event. When power returned, the grid anticipated their load—and got no...

Streetlights as AI Powerhouses: Nigeria’s 50,000-Lamp Data Center Network Challenges Grid Giants

Warwickshire's Conflow Power Group just struck a deal with Nigeria's Katsina State. Fifty thousand solar-powered lampposts. Each one packing a Nvidia chip. Networked into Africa...

Meta’s Orbit-to-Nuclear Power Blitz: Securing Gigawatts for AI’s Insatiable Hunger

Meta Platforms Inc. faces a power crunch. Its AI data centers gulped 18,000 gigawatt-hours in 2024 alone—enough to run 1.7 million U.S. homes for a year. Demand surges. Proje...

Maine’s Vetoed Data Center Halt: Jobs Clash with AI Power Surge

Governor Janet Mills drew a line in the sand Friday. She vetoed LD 307, a bill that would have slapped an 18-month freeze on permits for data centers pulling 20 megawatts or...

Trump’s Branded AI Colossus Stumbles: Inside Fermi America’s Data Center Debacle

A vast expanse of dusty plains in the Texas Panhandle, just beyond the barbed-wire fences of the Pantex nuclear weapons plant, was supposed to birth the world's largest AI data...

JetBlue’s Tweet Slip Ignites Class-Action Firestorm Over Data-Driven Fare Hikes

A single deleted tweet from JetBlue's X account has unleashed a federal class-action lawsuit accusing the airline of secretly jacking up ticket prices using shoppers' personal d...

Meta’s Hyperion Gamble: Louisiana’s 7-Gigawatt AI Power Surge Reshapes Energy and Rural America

In the flat farmlands of Richland Parish, Louisiana, Meta Platforms is erecting Hyperion, a sprawling AI data center campus that dwarfs anything the company has built before. Sp...

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