Amazon Plans to Invest Up to $25 Billion in Anthropic
Anthropic also committed to spending $100 billion on Amazon technologies that can help build and deploy A.I. systems.
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Satellite and drone images reveal big delays in US data center construction
Silicon Valley has been pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into building ever-larger AI data centers that require as much electricity as hundreds of thousands of US homes—but that massive buildout faces significant construction and power challenges along with growing local resistance. Now satellite imagery is showing that nearly 40 percent of US data center
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Meta’s AI spending spree is helping make its Quest headsets more expensive
The rising costs of RAM and other computing components are pushing up the price of Meta’s Quest VR headsets, which the company says will increase by $50–$100 (about 12–20 percent) starting on April 19. In announcing that price increase on Thursday, the company cited the “global surge in the price of critical components—specifically memory chips—[that]
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Maine Would Be First State to Pause New Data Centers, if Governor Signs Bill
The Democrat-controlled legislature passed the measure on Tuesday, but Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat running for Senate, has yet to say whether she will sign it.
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Trump ignores biggest reasons his AI data center buildout is failing
Donald Trump is facing significant hurdles after declaring, in a series of executive orders last year, that rapid construction of AI data centers was among his top priorities to ensure the US wins the AI race against China. Perhaps most likely to frustrate the president, his aggressive tariffs on Chinese imports are reportedly hindering most
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O.
An initial public offering of Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company would most likely be a generational wealth event and one of the largest offerings ever.
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Senators want US energy information agency to monitor data center electricity usage
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican Senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually use. In a joint letter sent to the Energy Information Administration Thursday morning, seen by WIRED, Hawley and Warren press the agency to publicly collect “comprehensive, annual
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The Former Coal Miner in the Middle of the A.I. Data Center Boom
Josh Payne, the chief executive of Nscale, raised $2 billion from investors. Sheryl Sandberg, the former Facebook executive, is joining his board.
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Big Tech’s Uncertain Future in the Persian Gulf
The expanding war in the Middle East has added new risks to the trillions of dollars in investments that tech companies have planned in the region.