Americans Are Trying to Stop Data Centers Because They Can’t Stop A.I.
We are trying to decide what role A.I. will have in our lives.
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Why Data Center Firms Are Working With Trump on Energy Costs
The White House has floated a new plan to try to ease voter concerns over the A.I. boom’s effect on electric bills. But it won’t be easy to put into practice.
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Are consumers doomed to pay more for electricity due to data center buildouts?
Big Tech is set to agree to build its own power plants for data centers and shield consumers from rising electricity costs, but companies face daunting logistical obstacles to delivering on the pledge championed by President Donald Trump. At a White House event on Wednesday, executives from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle, and OpenAI
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Iowa county adopts strict zoning rules for data centers, but residents still worry
PALO, Iowa—There are two restaurants in Palo, not counting the chicken wings and pizza sold at the only gas station in town. All three establishments, including the gas station, stand on the same half-mile stretch of First Street, an artery that divides the marshy floodplain of the Cedar River to the east from hundreds of
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Musk has no proof OpenAI stole xAI trade secrets, judge rules, tossing lawsuit
Elon Musk appears to be grasping at straws in a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of poaching eight xAI employees in an allegedly unlawful bid to access xAI trade secrets connected to its data centers and chatbot, Grok. In a Tuesday order granting OpenAI’s motion to dismiss, US District Judge Rita F. Lin said that xAI failed
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Trump Says Tech Firms Should Pay More for Electricity
The president said he had negotiated a deal with tech giants to cover the energy costs of data centers, but offered few details. Experts said such pledges could prove difficult in practice.
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Racing to Catch Up With Nvidia, AMD Signs Chips-for-Stock Deal With Meta
The multibillion-dollar deal is AMD’s latest move to catch up to Nvidia in the lucrative world of selling artificial intelligence chips.
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Intel Strikes Deal With a Chip Start-Up Its C.E.O. Invested In
A technical partnership embraces SambaNova Systems, which Intel’s chief, Lip-Bu Tan, helps lead as an investor and chairman.
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“I’m not for sale”: Farmers refuse to take millions in data center deals
It seems that tech giants eyeing rural zones for data center development have underestimated how attached American farmers have grown to their lands in the decades they’ve been nurturing them. Across the country, several farmers have firmly rejected eye-popping offers—sometimes in the tens of millions. These offers dwarf the value of their properties, but farmers
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A.I. Is Coming for the 2026 Midterms
Our tech columnist Kevin Roose explains A.I.’s potential impact.