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22 stories taggeddata centres.
OpenAI plans to spend $750 billion on infrastructure by 2030, starting with a massive Georgia data centre
The company's first move is a 1,400-acre campus near Savannah that will draw enough electricity to power a small city, mostly from new natural gas plants.
AMD Is Betting Up to $5 Billion on Anthropic and Its Claude AI
The chipmaker will supply massive computing power to the maker of Claude, and in return will use Claude to help write its own software.
Nearly 200 Companies Signed Trump's AI Electric Bill Pledge. It Has No Teeth.
Utility giants and data centre operators have joined a White House promise to protect consumers from higher electricity bills caused by AI. The pledge is voluntary, carries no penalties, and enforcement is largely out of federal hands.
The secret ingredient keeping AI running: advanced materials science
Chips and software grab the headlines, but a quieter race is under way in the labs developing the physical materials that let AI hardware exist at all.
Living next to a data centre: what UK residents are actually experiencing
Across Britain, roughly 450 large data centres hum away in industrial estates and on the edges of towns. The people living nearby are starting to talk about what that means for their daily lives.
Microsoft plugs AMD's newest chips into Azure to handle the AI compute crunch
Three new virtual machine types land in Microsoft's cloud, each built around AMD's latest processors and aimed at a different piece of the AI workload puzzle.
The Electricity Problem at the Heart of Modern AI
Every AI data centre runs on a fixed power budget. The company that squeezes the most useful work out of each watt wins. Here is what that means in plain English.
Apple Sues OpenAI Over Stolen Hardware Secrets, and Some OpenAI Staff Are Fighting Back Against Their Own Boss
A lawsuit, a rogue political fundraising group, and New York's new data centre ban all landed in the same week. Here is what each one actually means.
Australia sets up a national AI office and pledges to protect artists from copyright theft
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used a major speech at the University of Sydney to announce a new government AI body and promise that Australian creators will not hand their work to tech companies for free.
Australia's Prime Minister vows to protect artists from AI copyright theft and clamps down on data centres
Anthony Albanese has pledged that writers, musicians and artists will keep control of their work and get paid when AI companies use it. New rules will also govern where giant data centres can be built and how much power they consume.
Australia's PM Promises Fast-Track Approvals for AI Data Centres. Critics Say That's Not Enough.
Anthony Albanese wants to speed up permits for the giant computer facilities that power AI. But policy experts warn Australia needs accountability guardrails first.
AI chip executives say demand is 'almost unlimited' even as companies get pickier about costs
Senior figures from chip startups, data centre builders and venture capital say AI infrastructure demand is outrunning supply. But enterprises are starting to ask hard questions about what they actually get for their money.
New York halts all large data centre construction for one year
Governor Kathy Hochul has put a 12-month freeze on any new data centre bigger than 50 megawatts, making New York the first US state to take such a step. The pause will last until the state sets formal environmental and energy standards for the industry.
New York Hits Pause on New AI Data Centres for a Year
Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order on Tuesday making New York the first US state to block new large-scale data centres, the vast warehouse-like buildings packed with computers that power AI tools.
Australia Plans a Single Office to Oversee All of AI's Risks and Rewards
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Australia will be the first country to bring economic, security, social and environmental AI concerns under one national roof, while fast-tracking approvals for data centres.