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An AI factory is infrastructure purpose-built to turn raw data into AI output at scale. Here's what makes it different from a regular data center, and why governments are now building their own.
Read more →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.
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A data center moratorium is a temporary government freeze on new data center permits. Here's how the tool works, why so many places are using it, and what it doesn't actually solve.
Read more →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 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 →AI data centers pack thousands of GPUs into liquid-cooled buildings that draw as much power as a small city — here's what sets them apart, and why tech firms now build power plants to run them.
Read more →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 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 →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 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 →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 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.
Read more →Qualcomm on June 24 unveiled the Dragonfly data center chip family — a 250-core Arm-based CPU and a new inference accelerator — with Meta signed on to deploy the hardware in its server fleet from 2028.
Read more →The Google DeepMind spinoff signed a three-year, $6.3 billion computing contract with SpaceX's Colossus data center, giving it the GPU scale needed to challenge closed AI giants with open-weight models.
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