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US Infrastructure Boom to Dwarf 19th-Century Railroad Boom by 2028
The US is experiencing an infrastructure boom, driven by the growth of data centers, which could cost over $10 billion a...
The AI Divergence: How Europe's Overregulation Could Hand China Global Supremacy
Europe's overregulation of AI and data centers could lead to a new great divergence, with China emerging as the global l...
6 Innovations That Can Help Power a Sustainable Future
From new battery technologies to data centers that capture carbon, these innovations can help reshape how we power socie...
Microsoft CEO: Data Center Growth Must 'Earn Permission' From Communities
Microsoft is ending data center NDAs and rolling out pledges on power, water, jobs and taxes as US states impose restric...
South Korea's First US Investment Is a $22.3 Billion Texas Gas Bet With No Customers
Seoul selected a 6.3GW Encinal gas complex as the first deployment of its $350 billion US pledge, but there is no PPA, n...
After Paying $20,000 for Drives, a Photographer Used AI to Stop Buying More
Allen Cooley saw a 4TB drive jump from $400 to $1,200, spent more than $20,000 on storage in 2025, then built a Claude-p...
Nvidia Jumps 6% After Data Center Sales Drive $96.2 Billion Quarter
Revenue rose 106% to $96.2 billion and net income nearly doubled, but Nvidia's margin guidance signals a step down. Afte...
Anthropic's Public Debut Arrives as AI Backlash Becomes a Formal Risk
The Claude maker is heading for a record listing while investors, voters and politicians push back on AI data centres. I...
Political Backlash Threatens the U.S. AI Data Center Boom
State-level reviews, moratoriums and cost-shifting proposals are rewriting the assumptions behind America's AI data cent...
Microsoft Says Southern Europe's AI Lead Will Be Decided by Skills, Not Models
Microsoft’s Southern Europe VP sees Greece shifting from AI adoption to a regional hub, but the decisive bottleneck is r...
Data Center Cargo Thefts Hit $110.6M as 'Bump-and-Run' Targets Security Escorts
Scott Cornell says cargo thieves used staged collisions against security escorts, exploiting poorly vetted drivers and p...
Long-Duration Battery Startups Raise $1.3B as Data Centers Seek 24/7 Clean Power
Form Energy’s $750 million round and Antora Energy’s $550 million raise put iron-air and carbon-block storage at the cen...
DFW Industrial Leasing Sets First-Half Record at 40.3M SF on Data Center Demand
Dallas-Fort Worth signed more than 72M SF of new industrial leases over 12 months, pushed average rents up 13% to $9.19 ...
Young Americans Distrust AI Billionaires and Favor Democratic Socialism, Poll Finds
A CNBC/Generation Labs survey of 1,088 Americans aged 18–34 finds wide distrust of AI executives, pessimism about the ec...
Georgia Watchdogs Ask Regulators to Reject OpenAI-Georgia Power Contract Over Ratepayer Risk
NRDC, Sierra Club and SACE want Georgia’s Public Service Commission to reject OpenAI’s 3.2 GW power deal unless Georgia ...
Francesca Hong’s Wisconsin Loss Shows the Left’s Electability Test Is Still Real
Democratic socialist Francesca Hong lost Wisconsin’s governor primary to Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley after ...
DePaul’s $42M Athletic Facility Leads Chicago’s Weekly Construction Permits
A $42.4 million DePaul athletic center, a 73-unit Lincoln Square addition and a Digital Realty data-center upgrade headl...
Abbott's Data-Center Audits Delay Texas Grid Approvals by Months
ERCOT cannot meet deadlines for its latest interconnection batch after Texas ordered data-center audits, stalling a pipe...
Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-Word AI Manifesto: Open Models, Earlier U.S. Oversight, $1 Billion Fund
Meta's CEO urges open-source AI and earlier government collaboration, defends distillation, and launches a $1 billion da...
Nvidia, Wall Street Giants Launch $500B AI Infrastructure Financing Plan
Six Wall Street giants ink MOUs with Nvidia to deploy $500B for AI compute infrastructure, reigniting debate over circul...
Supermicro Stock Jumps as Margins and Orders Overshadow Revenue Miss
Supermicro shares rose 7% after-hours as a massive gross margin beat and a record US$60bn order book eclipsed a slight r...
CoreWeave Tops Revenue Forecast on AI Cloud Surge, Posts Narrower Loss
CoreWeave beat second-quarter revenue estimates and reported a smaller-than-expected loss, driven by surging demand for ...
Wall Street Analysts Bet Data Center IPO Csquare Can Double as Demand Outruns Supply
Several major banks launched bullish coverage on July IPO Csquare, citing the data center operator’s unique position to ...
Nvidia and Wall Street Giants Plan $500 Billion AI Infrastructure Push
Nvidia teams up with Goldman Sachs, Apollo, BlackRock, and KKR to raise at least half a trillion dollars for data center...
Nvidia and Wall Street Titans Forge $500B AI Infrastructure Financing Pact
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang rallied Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR into a consortium aimi...
Kevin O'Leary Admits Messaging Failures on Utah Data Center, Vows Transparency to Win Over Community
The 'Shark Tank' investor says his team 'really screwed this up' in communicating the mammoth Stratos project to Box Eld...
Amazon Confirms Massive Gas Plant for Texas Data Centers — Emissions Nearly 10% of France’s Annual CO2
Amazon will build a 7.65 GW gas-fired power plant in Texas to directly supply its data centers, bypassing the grid. The ...
82-Year-Old Kentucky Grandmother Refuses $26 Million to Preserve Family Farm
Ida Huddleston, 82, turned down a multimillion-dollar offer from a tech giant to build a data center on land her family ...
Siemens Invests $200 Million in US Plants to Ride AI Data-Center Boom
The industrial giant is adding two new US factories for electrical data-center equipment, creating 1,500 jobs, as record...
Fisk’s $900M Renewal Hinges on a Data Center That Has Divided Nashville
The university’s ambitious Quantum Leap plan includes a 100,000 sq ft AI data center to boost revenue and student skills...