Nvidia Invests $1.5B in SB Energy to Power OpenAI's Ohio Site
Nvidia is investing $1.5 billion in SoftBank's SB Energy and backing infrastructure at a new Ohio campus built to run exclusively on Nvidia AI compute for OpenAI.
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L&T to Build India's Largest Nvidia AI Factory for Together AI
Indian engineering giant Larsen & Toubro will deploy 10,000 Nvidia B300 GPUs in Chennai for Together AI, its largest single AI infrastructure order yet.
Read more →Riot Platforms Signs $9.1B AI Data Center Deal With Anthropic
Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms will lease 191 megawatts of Texas data-center capacity for $9.1 billion over 20 years; Bloomberg and CNBC identify the tenant as Anthropic.
Read more →Nvidia, Wall Street Giants Plan $500B AI Financing Platforms
Nvidia signed agreements with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to build financing platforms that could mobilize over $500 billion for AI infrastructure.
Read more →Anthropic, Macquarie, GIC Launch Theseus for AI Data Centers
Anthropic has teamed up with Macquarie Asset Management and Singapore's GIC to launch Theseus Infrastructure, a venture that will build and lease US data centers dedicated to running Claude.
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Nvidia-Backed Firmus Raises $2B to Expand AI Factories
Australian AI infrastructure firm Firmus raised $2 billion from Nvidia, Blackstone, Coatue and Jane Street, nearly doubling its valuation to $10.5 billion to expand AI data centers across Asia-Pacific.
Read more →AMD, Core Scientific Sign $14B Deal for Up to 2.5GW of AI Power
AMD and Core Scientific signed a 15-year infrastructure deal worth more than $14 billion, starting with 529 megawatts of U.S. data center capacity in 2027 and room to grow to 2.5 gigawatts.
Read more →Meta Hands BlackRock 80% Stake in New $14B AI Data Center
Meta and BlackRock formed a joint venture to build a 1-gigawatt AI data center in El Paso, Texas, shifting most of the roughly $14 billion project off Meta's balance sheet.
Read more →Nvidia Weighs $250B Guarantee for OpenAI's Ohio Data Center
Nvidia is in talks to guarantee $250 billion in financing so OpenAI can lease a 10-gigawatt SoftBank data center in Ohio, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources.
Read more →OpenAI Plans $20 Billion Data Center in Coastal Georgia, US
OpenAI unveiled Project Camellia, a $20 billion data center in Effingham County, Georgia, its first self-built facility, powered by 3.2 gigawatts from Georgia Power.
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What Is AI Capex — and Why Is It Draining Big Tech's Cash?
Capital expenditure — capex — is what tech giants spend building AI data centers and chips. Here's what it means when that spending pushes a profitable company's free cash flow negative.
Read more →Microsoft and Mistral Expand AI Deal for European Sovereignty
Microsoft is funding a multibillion-dollar expansion of Mistral's European data centers, letting regulated industries run frontier AI without ceding control of their data.
Read more →Blackstone, Apollo, KKR Invest $5.34B in Williams' AI Power Plants
A Blackstone-led investor group is funding 49% of five natural-gas power plants that pipeline giant Williams is building largely to supply electricity to AI data centers.
Read more →New York Enacts First-in-Nation Freeze on Hyperscale Data Centers
Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order pausing new hyperscale data center permits for up to a year, citing rising electricity bills and grid strain from AI-driven demand.
Read more →Meta Expands Louisiana AI Data Center to $50 Billion, 5 Gigawatts
Meta is expanding its Hyperion data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, to 5 gigawatts of capacity, pushing total investment past $50 billion and funding local schools and infrastructure.
Read more →Meta Breaks Ground on $13B AI Data Center in Alberta, Canada
Meta has begun construction on a 1-gigawatt, AI-optimized data center in Alberta — its first in Canada and 33rd globally, backed by a CAD $13 billion investment.
Read more →Meta to Start Producing In-House AI Chip 'Iris' in September
Meta plans to begin manufacturing its in-house "Iris" AI chip in September, aiming to double its data center computing capacity to 14 gigawatts by 2027, an internal memo reviewed by Reuters shows.
Read more →What Is a Neocloud? The GPU Clouds Powering the AI Boom
A neocloud is a cloud company built to rent out GPUs for AI work — and it's why bitcoin miners are turning old mining sites into AI data centers.
Read more →Anthropic Signs $19 Billion Data Center Lease With TeraWulf
Anthropic will lease a 401-megawatt AI computing campus in Hawesville, Kentucky, from TeraWulf under a 20-year, $19 billion deal, with capacity coming online starting in 2027.
Read more →South Korea Bets $880 Billion on AI and Semiconductor Dominance
President Lee Jae Myung unveiled a sweeping national strategy on June 29, committing at least $880 billion from Samsung, SK Hynix, and major Korean conglomerates to semiconductors, AI infrastructure, and data centers through 2035.
Read more →Samsung Commits $648 Billion to AI Chips Over the Next Decade
Samsung Group pledged 1,000 trillion won ($648 billion) at a South Korean government briefing on June 28, with over 350 trillion won targeting AI data centers and semiconductor factories across the country over ten years.
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