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The Next Target in China's Secret War Against US Data Centers
China is worried about U.S. data centers too—but not for the reasons you might believe.…
Fast Takes: Incredible shrinking Gaza famine, Trump’s right on data centers and more
A UNICEF report finds no widespread acute malnutrition in Gaza, plus why Donald Trump is right to defend the economic benefits of data centers.…
Sources: Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI as head of data centers in March 2025, left the company last week amid a broader exodus (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)
Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal : Sources: Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI as head of data centers in March 2025, left the company last week amid a broader exodus — Chris Malo…
Irish lawmakers reconsider the country's 1999 ban on nuclear power as data centers' growing power demands account for ~25% of the country's electricity use (Jude Webber/Financial Times)
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Texas welcomed the AI boom. Now Abbott says data centers "dug their own grave"
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott delivered one of the starkest warnings yet from a Republican executive to the AI industry, telling ABC's Jonathan Karl that data center companies "dug their …
Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have made Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, a data center hub, with ~100 data centers built or under construction (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
Zeyi Yang / Wired : Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have made Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, a data center hub, with ~100 data centers built or under construction —…
Trump says it’s ‘OK with me’ if Republicans disagree with him on data centers
President Donald Trump on Friday said it’s no issue if Republican lawmakers and candidates disagree with him on regulating data centers, something his preferred candidates and alli…
Republicans are realizing that no one wants data centers
Velaura AI, which is developing low-power chips for data centers and physical AI applications, like robotics, raised a $110M Series A at a $1B+ valuation (Prathik Jayaprakash/Reuters)
Prathik Jayaprakash / Reuters : Velaura AI, which is developing low-power chips for data centers and physical AI applications, like robotics, raised a $110M Series A at a $1B+ valu…
West Virginia Wants To Use Data Centers To Eliminate Its Income Tax
The state's plan to attract large infrastructure projects is full of administrative hurdles and concedes many of the bad arguments made by NIMBY critics.…
The rebellion against data centers is growing
VectorGrid Core – Bare-metal C++ grid orchestration for AI data centers
Autonomous low-latency grid remediation and orchestration engine written in C++ to stabilize utility infrastructures supporting high-density AI clusters. - MaximiH-86/GridPulse_Pro…
Virginia cracks down on electricity firms hiking prices for AI data centers — move could save ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ for everyday users
A 76% price hike in electricity bills exposed who was really paying for Virginia's massive AI data center expansion…
As Meta and OpenAI support audits, Texas Gov. Abbott and President Trump clash on data centers - KVUE
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As Meta and OpenAI support audits, Texas Gov. Abbott and President Trump clash on data centers - KVUE
Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.…
Over 70% of Americans oppose AI data centers; US protests intensify as more arrests are being made — almost 40 arrested this year in backlash to AI factory buildout
A coalition of community residents, local politicians, and grassroots organisers are pushing back.…
Meta says Muse Glimmer has 30B parameters and is "small enough" to need only one GPU; Meta plans a $1B fund to invest in US communities near its data centers (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
By Vlad Savov / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.…
Meet The Activists Opposing Virginia Data Centers. Some Have Marxist Ties.
‘professional tree hugger’…
Intel's proposed orbital data centers would manage thousands of simple LEO satellites —two-tier network puts the brains of satellite constellations in higher orbit
The proposed architecture is a different proposition from the orbital AI data centers…
Just How Bad Are AI Data Centers for Your Local Water?
Communities say AI is draining their water supplies, but the tech industry begs to differ. Gizmodo asked experts for their honest assessments.…
Georgia Candidates Gather at Chamber Luncheon to Discuss Business, Data Centers
ATHENS, Ga.—On Wednesday, a host of political candidates attended the Chamber of Commerce Congressional Luncheon to discuss initiatives, make pledges, and more. Attendees included …
If Orbital Data Centers Take Off, Brace For Giant Rings In The Sky
Scientists are starting to visualize what these space-based data centers would look like over Earth when they'd occupy a special 'sun synchronous orbit,' potentially creating massi…
Sources: the US Commerce Department's BIS is reviewing how Chinese AI companies access Nvidia chips overseas, including by legally renting foreign data centers (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
By Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.…
Abbott Orders Audit of Texas Data Centers, Pausing Future Grid Connections
Earlier this week, Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state regulators to conduct a comprehensive audit of data centers seeking to connect to the Texas grid, effectively pausing future data …
Americans are rallying against data centers. Surprisingly few are actually getting built
Why America Is Turning Against AI Data Centers
From Texas to New York, local communities are organizing against massive data centers, making their development a new political battleground.…
Ro Khanna calls for the right to oppose data centers to be protected
The congressman thinks it's time for a "Data Center Bill of Rights."…
Sources: Panthalassa, which aims to power data centers in the ocean using energy generated by waves, is raising $225M at a ~$2B valuation, up from $1B in May (Julia Hornstein/The Information)
By Julia Hornstein / The Information. View the full context on Techmeme.…