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Texas was the new epicenter of the AI data center buildout. That might be kaput.
Democrats won the Texas governor's race and will take control of the Texas House for the first time in 24 years, and that could slow some of the state…
Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers
Russian tech companies are moving to harden and hide their data centers underground after Ukrainian drone strikes damaged facilities that housed AI su…
AMD rides data center riches to ‘largest and most profitable’ quarter in history
AMD CEO Lisa Su said on the company's quarterly earnings call on Tuesday that the third quarter of 2026 "was the largest and most profitable in our hi…
Ford launches a ‘privacy promise’ and explains how and why it uses customer data
Ford unveiled a "privacy promise" on Monday, describing it as an "explicit commitment" to keep customers' vehicle data safe and give them control over…
OpenAI might rebrand its data centers as ‘AI compute campuses’
OpenAI may rebrand its data centers as "AI compute campuses," according to TechCrunch, which cites Axios reporting. Chris Lehane, OpenAI's chief glob…
The Download: dead startups fueling AI and interspecies communication
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Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
Boom Supersonic is facing doubts about its supersonic airliner timeline as it shifts focus toward gas turbines for AI data centers. United Airlines CE…
Data centers are now a midterm issue, even in Brooklyn
The report describes a Thursday evening midterm election event in Brooklyn, hosted by Newsreel, where data centers and AI dominated the conversation. …
Nvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale’s AI data center in West Virginia
Nvidia is in talks to guarantee billions of dollars in debt financing for Nscale's planned Anthropic data center in West Virginia, according to The In…
Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry
Google's Suncatcher prototype space data center is online and communicating with the ground, according to TechCrunch. The satellite launched earlier t…
GM to pay $220 million after selling customer Smart Driver data
GM will pay $220 million to settle claims brought by the District of Columbia and 35 states over its handling of driver data, according to the source.…
Maine’s data center revolt will decide who controls the Senate
Maine voters are pushing back against proposed AI data centers as the state's Senate race becomes one of the most expensive per capita in US history, …
GM reaches $220M settlement over selling drivers’ private data
General Motors will pay $220 million to 36 states to settle allegations that it illegally sold private driving behavior and location information to da…
Jensen Huang’s Vision for Europe Runs on Plug-In Data Centers
Jensen Huang, Nvidia's chief executive, outlined plans for Europe's artificial intelligence economy at the company's Berlin conference on Wednesday, c…
Meta’s Muse hits 10M U.S. downloads in 40 days, a milestone reached by only 11 other apps
Meta's AI assistant app Muse reached 10.9 million U.S. downloads in its first 40 days after launching in September, making it only the 12th app ever t…
Nvidia launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs
Nvidia launched three open-weight models on Thursday designed to run AI agents on enterprise infrastructure and consumer PCs without relying on cloud …
Data Centers Have a New PR Plan: Your Kid’s Field Trip
The data center industry has launched a coordinated youth outreach campaign using children's books, school field trips, classroom activities and holid…
AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models
Startups shuttering their operations now have a new revenue stream: selling their accumulated data to AI training labs. A company called SimpleClosure…
WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data
WindBorne Systems, a California-based weather balloon operator, has won a noncompetitive contract from the U.S. Air Force valued at up to $49 million,…
Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
Ukrainian drone strikes on October 8 and 9 damaged two of five data centers operated by Yandex, the Russian search engine and tech company often calle…
Xbox has secured exclusive GTA 6 streaming rights
Microsoft has secured exclusive streaming rights for Grand Theft Auto VI on Xbox Cloud Gaming at the game's November launch, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told…
Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
Amazon announced a $1 billion commitment over five years to communities neighboring its data centers, but environmental advocates say the pledge avoid…