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Agreement on Data Centers Falters as Ohio Lawmakers Go on Recess

While the Ohio Legislature has made strides this week in key areas before summer recess, it was unable to come to agreement on the hot button issue of data centers. Lawmakers have …

Oracle Falls After Data Center Costs Overshadow AI Growth - Bloomberg.com

Oracle Falls After Data Center Costs Overshadow AI Growth Bloomberg.com…

Musk’s xAI and SpaceX sued over ‘inescapable’ noise from data center plant

Residents of a Mississippi city bordering Tennessee filed a class-action lawsuit against Elon Musk‘s xAI and SpaceX, alleging that a data center and power-generation facility near …

Caterpillar Holds Key Level After Plowing Into Data Center Market

Iren Ltd (IREN): Crypto Mining Giving Way to AI Data Centers

China Opens World's First Wind-Powered Underwater Data Center

With an initial capacity of 24 megawatts, the innovative data center uses seawater as a natural cooling system.…

Meta signs first AI data center deal in India with Reliance

The 168-megawatt facility will support Meta's global AI computing needs and can be expanded over time.…

Seattle City Council votes 9-0 to enact a one-year moratorium on new large data centers and study their impact; Mayor Katie Wilson is expected to sign the bill (Greg Kim/The Seattle Times)

Greg Kim / The Seattle Times : Seattle City Council votes 9-0 to enact a one-year moratorium on new large data centers and study their impact; Mayor Katie Wilson is expected to sig…

Data Centers Will Turn Red States Blue

It won’t happen overnight, and it won’t happen in Washington. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) won’t have anything to do with it. And neither will the DNC, at least directly. But it wil…

EXCLUSIVE: GOP Rep Wants To Give America’s Power Plants, Data Centers An Anti-Drone Upgrade

'People know this is bad for them'…

Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests

AI Data Centers’ Water Consumption Breaks 264 Billion Gallons in 2025 as Devastating Drought Hits Nearly 63% of U.S.

Nashville Zoo tries to halt data center project next door over animal safety concerns

The mayor of Shelbyville, Indiana, says only people who live in ‘shitty houses’ oppose data center

A proposed $2 billion data center has become a political flashpoint in the small city of Shelbyville, Indiana. And the controversy has only grown more intense after the mayor, Scot…

Utah residents sue officials over Kevin O’Leary data center plan

Google to pay SpaceX $920 million a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers

Ahead of a planned IPO, SpaceX inked a deal to rent compute capacity to Google for $920 million per month for 32 months.…

Connecting the Pieces: AI, Data Centers, and the Environment

Five questions about how data centers run AI, what they consume, and where the realistic paths to sustainability lie.…

Data Center Developer Switch in Talks to Raise Billions at $50 Billion-Plus Valuation - The Information

Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.…

Hut 8 subsidiary prices $4.25 billion notes for Texas data center

AI boom: Demand for data centers drives innovation by energy, tech industries to produce new power sources

Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving a surge in electricity demand, prompting companies to invest in energy technologies, grid infrastructure and innovative data centers.…

Trump denies China is funding data center opposition movement in US

President Donald Trump rejected the claim that China is behind the anti-data center fervor sweeping the nation during a Thursday afternoon event at the White House. “We had a great…

Kevin O’Leary agrees to downsize massive Utah data center

Kevin O'Leary agreed to halve the size of his planned 40,000-acre data center in Utah amid mounting pressure from residents and activists, as reported earlier by local affiliate AB…

France secured €110B+ of proposed AI and data center investments this week, amounting to ~10 GW of new computing capacity, equivalent to ~10 nuclear reactors (Sarah White/Financial Times)

Sarah White / Financial Times : France secured €110B+ of proposed AI and data center investments this week, amounting to ~10 GW of new computing capacity, equivalent to ~10 nuclear…

Amazon engineers in Seattle slam employer for building AI data centers while laying off 30,000 staffers

Amazon engineers called out their employer for conducting mass layoffs while it commits to spending $200 billion this year on AI infrastructure.…

Voters in California City Favor Permanent Ban on Data Centers

Monterey Park, outside Los Angeles, appeared to become the first U.S. city where voters passed such a measure.…

Caught on camera: Shelbyville mayor insinuates citizens opposing data centers are poor renters in ‘sh***y houses’

POWER GUZZLERS: ‘Democratising’ the environmental impacts of the AI data beast

Amid the global scramble to build more AI data centres, scholars from the United Nations University are calling for greater public transparency and stricter government oversight to…

Daily on Energy: Oil up on hostilities, country-sized data center energy consumption, and Three Mile Island

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Wolfe Research raises BorgWarner stock price target on data center outlook

OpenAI-backed data center gives $10M to Saline recreation center - MLive.com

Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.…

Amazon Employees Show Up to City Council Meeting to Demand Limits on Data Centers

Activists say it’s the first time big tech employees have publicly called for regulations governing data center projects.…

Industrial Name Breaks Into Hot Data Center Market

If AI Data Centers Are So Great, Why Are They Being Built in Secret?

We Have A Transparency Problem When It Comes To Data Center Construction…

TTM Technologies: AI Data Centers, Defense Electronics And Space Tailwinds Can Drive More Upside

TTM Technologies (TTMI) Strong Buy: AI-driven data center & defense growth, $261 target (47.5% upside). Read the full analysis here.…

Google says it will replenish more water than it uses at data centers amid public pushback

There’s been a lot of pushback in recent months around the impact of AI data centers on local communities, with...…

UN calculates nation-sized environmental footprints for AI and data centers

Water must be a fundamental human right, not a commodity: Sainath

P. Sainath advocates for water as a fundamental human right, emphasizing its importance over commodification at a recent seminar.…

Cummins: Data Center Demand And Truck Recovery Justify A Higher Multiple

Cummins (CMI) delivered strong Q1'26 results, with Power Systems EBITDA margin reaching a record 29.5% and full-year guidance raised across revenue and...…

IREN plants flag in Australia with its first data center campus to serve Asia-Pacific AI demand

IREN adds 4% premarket as company unveils 800MW Australian AI data center campus

The AI infrastructure firm secured a grid connection for a planned South Australian campus, with energization targeted for 2028.…

Why building two data centers a week won’t fix AI’s bottleneck

Building AI infrastructure without connectivity is like cities without roads…

The EU's Cloud and AI Development Act aims to triple data center capacity in the next 5-7 years, and introduce the Chips Act 2.0 to allow direct EU investment (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

Google pledges to replenish more water than it uses at data centers by 2030

Google has expanded its water stewardship projects in the midst of growing unrest over data centers’ water usage.…

The US data center build-out is falling behind schedule; JP Morgan says 60%+ of data center capacity planned for completion in 2027 isn't yet under construction (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)

AI Infrastructure Isn't Just on Land

최근 서비스에 홍콩, 중국, 일본, 유럽 주요 종목이 추가되면서 AI 인프라를 보는 시야도 훨씬 넓어졌습니다. 이제 한국과 미국 종목뿐 아니라 일본의 $J5332 TOTO, 유럽의 $E:ASML, 홍콩의 $H00981 SMIC, 중국 본토의 반도체·광통신 기업들까지 같은 흐름 안에서 함…

Israeli startup ZutaCore, which builds direct-to-chip liquid data center cooling systems, raised a $100M Series C from Mitsubishi and more at a $600M valuation (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Google unveils five AI data center water commitments, including becoming water positive by 2030, local infrastructure investment, and transparency about usage (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

Lauren Feiner / The Verge : Google unveils five AI data center water commitments, including becoming water positive by 2030, local infrastructure investment, and transparency about…

Data Center Operators Are Trying to Fix Their Water Use Problems

Google, Microsoft, and other hyperscalers have come under scrutiny for their impact on water quality and availability.…

Astera Labs showcases 320-lane PCIe 6.0 switch for vendor-agnostic scaling in data centers — up to 80 accelerators can be scaled up using PCIe alone

You can never have enough PCIe 6.0 lanes.…

Google pushes water standards amid data center backlash

Facing mounting scrutiny over data center water consumption, Google on Wednesday released a set of guidelines it says should become the industry standard. Why it matters: Communiti…

Private infra, real estate capital to play larger financing role in AI data center boom, Goldman says

AI data centers — in space

AI could save us or destroy us. Too late now. We’re up to our eyeballs in it

AI is promising an economic and medical nirvana. But from Gandalf to people watching new data centres in their communities, fear of AI is growing.…

Nebraskans are taking a hard look at data centers

Residents and officials are finding ways to slow down the development rush.…

Sterling Infrastructure: Navigating Secular Data Center Tailwinds At A Premium Valuation

Sterling Infrastructure's E-infrastructure segment leverages the AI and data center buildout. Read what warrants a cautious accumulation of STRL stock.…

With Perplexity's Push for Hybrid AI, Your Laptop Could Function as a Data Center

Perplexity is shifting how some sensitive AI data is stored, balancing processing between local silicon and cloud servers.…

America's Data Center Build-Out Is Falling Way Behind Schedule

Albany Democrats poised to impose 1-year ban on new AI data center construction in NY

The state legislature plans to vote on imposing a one-year ban on constructing new, massive energy-devouring data centers in New York amid a backlash.…

AI revolution and consumer spending give economy a lift

Private business investment jumped by 6 per cent in the March quarter, driven by a 30-year-high increase in machinery and equipment, much of which is used to build data centres.…

Source: a CoreWeave-tied data center raised $900M via five-year junk bonds, priced at par to yield 7.5%, as the sector increasingly turns to high-yield bonds (Gowri Gurumurthy/Bloomberg)

Gowri Gurumurthy / Bloomberg : Source: a CoreWeave-tied data center raised $900M via five-year junk bonds, priced at par to yield 7.5%, as the sector increasingly turns to high-yie…