Topic: data centers
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Investors Are Betting Big on Solid-State Transformers
A new generation of intelligent solid-state transformers is emerging, replacing passive hardware with power electronics to give grid operators unprecedented control and improve resilience. These devices act as sophisticated power routers, managing electricity from diverse sources and converting b...
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Reliance's $110B AI Plan Fuels India's Tech Ambitions
Reliance Industries is investing $110 billion over seven years to build large-scale AI infrastructure, including data centers and a nationwide edge computing network, integrated with its Jio telecom platform. This investment aims to address the global scarcity of computing power, reduce AI servic...
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Big Tech's AI Climate Claims Lack Proof
Tech companies' claims that AI will significantly reduce global emissions by 2030 are based on unverified, non-peer-reviewed consulting reports, not robust scientific models. Google's promotion of AI as a climate solution contradicts its own rising corporate emissions, driven by the energy-intens...
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OpenAI Partners With Tata for 100MW AI Data Center in India
OpenAI has partnered with India's Tata Group to secure 100 megawatts of AI data center capacity, with plans to scale to a full gigawatt, as part of its strategic expansion in a key growth market. The initiative will host OpenAI's advanced models locally to reduce latency and meet India's data res...
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Mistral AI Acquires Koyeb to Boost Cloud Strategy
Mistral AI has acquired the Paris-based startup Koyeb, marking its first acquisition to strengthen its position in the AI market. The deal signals a strategic shift for Mistral from pure research to becoming a full-stack AI provider, accelerating its Mistral Compute cloud service. Koyeb's technol...
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Adani to Invest $100B in AI Data Centers for India's Global Push
The Adani Group plans a **$100 billion investment** over the next decade to build a network of AI data centers across India, aiming to create a **$250 billion AI infrastructure ecosystem** and position the country as a global AI hub. The initiative will leverage Adani's renewable energy portfolio...
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How a Small English Town Joined the Global AI Arms Race
A proposal to build a major data center on farmland near Potters Bar has sparked intense local opposition, highlighting a national conflict between technological development and community preservation. The UK government's policy shift, creating a "grey belt" classification and labeling data cente...
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Peak XV Backs C2i to Solve AI's Power Bottleneck
Power consumption, not computing power, is now the primary bottleneck for scaling AI data centers, driving investment into energy-efficient solutions. A significant portion of data center energy is wasted during power conversion, with losses of 15-20%, prompting startups like C2i to develop integ...
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Amazon vs. Google: Who Wins the AI Spending War?
Amazon and Google are leading an unprecedented surge in capital expenditure, driven by the belief that controlling advanced computing infrastructure is essential for future AI dominance and market leadership. Amazon projects the highest spending at $200 billion for 2026, though part of this budge...
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Nuclear Power's Future & AI's Social Media Hype
The surging electricity demand from AI data centers is driving interest in next-generation nuclear power as a potential solution, due to its promise of enhanced safety and lower costs. Public discourse on AI is often distorted by sensational, unverified claims on social media, which erode scienti...
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Mining's AI Revival: Extracting More Metal, Facing Truth Crisis
The Eagle Mine, America's only active nickel source, faces an uncertain future due to declining ore quality, highlighting the industry-wide challenge of depleting easy-to-extract metal deposits. Surging demand for metals from EVs and tech is pushing mining toward innovative, sustainable technolog...
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Cheap Hydrogen Could Reshape Data Center Locations
A novel method of extracting hydrogen directly from iron-rich rock formations offers a potential clean, low-cost energy source for industries like data centers under pressure to decarbonize. Vema Hydrogen's pilot project demonstrates this "engineered mineral hydrogen" process, projecting producti...
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India's 2047 Tax-Free Offer to Attract Global AI
India has introduced a major tax exemption for foreign cloud service providers on revenues from services sold outside the country, provided the workloads are processed in Indian data centers, as a strategic move to attract global AI investment until 2047. The policy coincides with massive planned...
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Amazon in $50 Billion Talks to Invest in OpenAI
Amazon is in high-stakes negotiations to invest $50 billion in OpenAI, which could anchor a $100 billion funding round and value OpenAI at $830 billion. This potential investment creates a strategic dynamic as Amazon already has a major partnership and investment in OpenAI's rival, Anthropic, thr...
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Who Owns TikTok? Key Facts About Its US Operations
TikTok's U.S. operations have been restructured into a new American-owned entity, "TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC," in response to a 2024 U.S. law mandating separation from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. ByteDance now holds only a 19.9% stake, with the remaining 80% owned by a consortium o...
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US Gas Boom Fueled by Data Center Demand
Surging data center electricity demand is driving a massive expansion of natural gas power in the U.S., with over a third of new gas-fired power projects explicitly tied to these facilities. Proposed gas-fired power projects could expand the U.S. fleet by nearly 50%, with data center-linked deman...
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Trump Administration Eases Nuclear Safety Regulations
The Trump administration enacted a regulatory change that streamlines safety and security rules for reactors built on Department of Energy land, reducing requirements and bypassing public comment. Key environmental and health safeguards have been downgraded to suggestions, allowing higher worker ...
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Meta's Multi-Million Dollar Push to Make Data Centers Cool
Meta launched a $6.4 million advertising campaign in late 2025 to positively frame its data centers as drivers of local economic revival and community spirit. Growing public opposition, focused on energy and water resource strain, has led to project delays and cancellations, prompting a coordinat...
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Nvidia Invests $2B to Boost CoreWeave's AI Compute by 5GW
Nvidia is investing $2 billion in CoreWeave to accelerate the deployment of over 5 gigawatts of AI computing capacity by 2030, funding the collaborative construction of specialized "AI factories" powered by Nvidia hardware. The partnership involves CoreWeave integrating Nvidia's full product ecos...
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The Data Center Protest Paradox: Embracing Their Suppliers
A strategic gap exists where data centers face intense public opposition over environmental and resource concerns, while the factories supplying them with critical hardware are often welcomed without scrutiny. Factories are more readily approved due to perceptions of providing stable jobs and low...
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TikTok Blames US Outage for Recent Service Issues
A major TikTok outage in the U.S. was caused by a power failure at a data center, disrupting core functions like video uploads and the content feed. The incident occurred shortly after a new U.S.-based entity, involving Oracle, officially took control to manage American user data and operations. ...
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General Fusion to Go Public in $1 Billion Reverse Merger
General Fusion is pursuing a reverse merger with a SPAC to go public, a move that could provide up to $335 million in new capital and value the company at around $1 billion. The funding is intended to complete its LM26 demonstration reactor, which uses a unique, piston-driven inertial confinement...
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Claude AI's Code Now Powers Microsoft's Ecosystem
Microsoft is broadly integrating Anthropic's Claude Code AI into its ecosystem for development and prototyping, even among non-technical staff, signaling a strong partnership. The company is adopting a multi-vendor AI strategy, deepening ties with Anthropic while maintaining OpenAI as its primary...
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Elon Musk: Tesla's Dojo Supercomputer to Power Space-Based AI
Tesla is reviving its Dojo3 project to develop supercomputing hardware for space-based AI processing, marking a strategic pivot from recent reliance on external chip suppliers. Elon Musk is publicly recruiting engineers to rebuild the team, framing the project as an opportunity to create potentia...
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Trump, Governors Push Tech Giants to Fund Power Plants
A bipartisan coalition of governors and the Trump administration are urging the PJM Interconnection grid operator to launch a special auction, offering 15-year contracts to encourage investment in new power plants to meet surging demand from AI and data centers. The proposal centers on making dat...
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EPA: xAI illegally used natural gas generators
The EPA has ruled that xAI unlawfully powered its Tennessee data centers with natural gas turbines, rejecting the company's claim of a temporary-use exemption. A lawsuit alleges xAI's operations increased harmful emissions in a region with existing air quality problems, sparking local and environ...
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RAM Shortage Shifts Focus From "AI PCs"
A severe memory chip shortage, driven by high demand from AI data centers, is causing a sharp 40-70% price increase for PC RAM and storage. PC manufacturers are responding by raising system prices 15-20% and reducing the standard memory configurations in new computers, especially in mid- to low-t...
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Microsoft's Plan to Prevent Data Centers From Raising Your Bills
Microsoft is proactively requesting higher electricity rates for its data centers to prevent increased power bills for nearby residents, addressing community backlash over utility costs. The company's policy shift follows rising national energy costs and significant community resistance, which ha...
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Microsoft's Data Center Boom Won't Raise Your Power Bill
Microsoft has introduced a "community-first" strategy, pledging to cover its full share of power grid strain to prevent increased electricity costs for local residents from its data center expansion. The policy also addresses water usage and job creation, promising to minimize water consumption a...
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Microsoft Faces Backlash Over New AI Data Centers
Growing public resistance to data centers has led to project cancellations and prompted Microsoft to introduce a "Community-First AI Infrastructure" strategy to address concerns over energy, water, and local impact. A primary community concern is rising electricity costs, partly driven by data ce...
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Meta Launches New AI Infrastructure Initiative
Meta has launched **Meta Compute**, a major initiative to build a world-class AI infrastructure, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls a core competitive advantage for developing superior AI models. The company plans to build tens of gigawatts of energy capacity this decade, scaling to hundreds over ti...
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Meta Bets Big on Nuclear Power With Oklo
Meta has shifted from a cautious nuclear power strategy to a bold investment in Oklo, a startup developing advanced fission reactors, to help secure fuel for a new power campus in Ohio. This deal is part of a broader, landmark private-sector nuclear initiative by Meta, involving partnerships with...
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Fastest-Growing AI Jobs in the US, According to LinkedIn
AI expertise is in high demand, with roles like AI Engineer and AI Consultant among the fastest-growing careers, driven by the integration of AI into core business functions. Key technical roles require specific skills (e.g., LangChain, PyTorch) and are concentrated in major tech hubs, while stra...
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The Challenge of Accurate AI Predictions
The future of AI is uncertain due to three key challenges: unpredictable progress in large language models, potential public opposition to infrastructure, and fragmented regulatory efforts. Public backlash against AI expansion, like resistance to new data centers, forces tech companies to activel...
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Inside Nvidia's AI Startup Investment Empire
Nvidia's AI dominance is fueled by a massive venture capital strategy, investing in nearly 67 deals in a year to shape the ecosystem and ensure its hardware remains central. The company places major bets on leading AI model developers like OpenAI and Anthropic, and invests in critical infrastruct...
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12 Investors Predict Climate Tech's 2026 Future
Climate tech investment remained resilient in 2024, defying downturn predictions due to the urgency of the climate crisis and the improved cost-effectiveness of clean technologies over fossil fuels. Data centers are the dominant energy focus, with the 2026 conversation expected to shift from shee...
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The Ultimate Power Play Strategy
The Trump administration's 2017 push to subsidize coal and nuclear power failed, but both sources are now seeing a renewed push driven by the soaring electricity demands of artificial intelligence. The current administration has made nuclear energy a policy priority to power AI, issuing executive...
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AI Chip Shortage May Drive Up Device Prices
A global memory chip shortage, driven by surging AI data center demand, is increasing costs for consumer electronics like smartphones and laptops. Prices for essential DRAM chips are soaring, with a 40% jump forecast next quarter and no supply relief expected before 2027. The shortage is a struct...
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Power Up the Grid: Why Software Is the Key
Surging electricity demand, primarily driven by the explosive growth of AI and data centers, is straining the aging electrical grid, creating an opportunity for software solutions to optimize infrastructure. Software startups are addressing this by identifying hidden grid capacity and aggregating...
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MayimFlow Prevents Data Center Leaks Proactively
MayimFlow, a startup, provides a proactive leak detection system for data centers using IoT sensors and machine learning to predict failures 24-48 hours in advance, preventing costly downtime. Founder John Khazraee identified a critical industry gap in reactive leak management and built a team wi...
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Alphabet Acquires Intersect Power to Overcome Grid Bottlenecks
Alphabet (Google's parent) has acquired clean energy developer Intersect Power for $4.75 billion to directly control power generation for its AI data centers, bypassing strained utility grids. The deal highlights that securing reliable power has become a critical strategic bottleneck for tech com...
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Communities Are Beating Back Data Centers
A nationwide, bipartisan grassroots movement is uniting against massive data center expansion, primarily due to soaring electricity demands and significant environmental impacts that affect utility bills and local resources. The enormous energy and water consumption of modern data centers, especi...
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5 Tech & Politics Trends That Defined 2025
Massive investment in AI data centers by tech giants like Meta and Google reshaped energy grids, real estate, and geopolitics, creating long-term economic and policy ripple effects. The controversial U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, highlighted the direct entry of tech ...
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6 AI Predictions That Will Terrify You by 2026
Global security faces a new threat as adversarial states could exploit grassroots opposition to data centers with AI-generated disinformation, aiming to slow Western infrastructure critical for AI dominance. AI is rapidly bridging the digital and physical worlds, with advanced robots set to perfo...
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Oppose Data Centers? The Working Families Party Wants Candidates.
The Working Families Party is recruiting local organizers opposed to data centers to run for office, aiming to convert grassroots activism into political power over community concerns like electricity costs and environmental impact. This political escalation coincides with heightened scrutiny fro...
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Lawmakers Probe Data Centers' Impact on Rising Power Bills
U.S. senators are investigating major tech and data center firms, alleging their soaring energy demands force utilities to build expensive infrastructure, with costs unfairly passed to residential consumers. The explosive growth of data centers, especially for AI, is a major new strain on the U.S...
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Virtual Power Plants: The Ultimate Grid Test
Virtual power plants (VPPs) are emerging as digital networks that link distributed resources like home batteries and smart thermostats to help balance the electricity grid, with their reliability being tested against traditional power plants. VPPs offer a rapid and cost-effective way to add signi...
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AI's 2025 Energy Surge: Water and Power Use Soars
The environmental impact of AI is significant and growing, with its energy use projected to exceed Bitcoin mining and its carbon emissions now comparable to a major global city like New York. AI's massive water consumption for data center cooling and associated power plants is a major concern, wi...
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Is the AI Bubble Real? What You Need to Know
The AI market shows signs of a speculative bubble, with industry leaders like Google's CEO acknowledging market "irrationality" and cautioning that all companies are vulnerable to a correction. A massive and potentially unsustainable investment boom is focused on building physical data center inf...
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How Data Centers Shift Energy Costs to Americans
A Senate investigation is demanding transparency from major tech companies over how their data centers' massive energy consumption is driving up electricity bills for American households, often without public knowledge. The inquiry highlights that utility infrastructure costs to support data cent...
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