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Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward
An NAACP lawsuit accuses the SpaceX-owned AI company of violating the Clean Air Act.
Nvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale’s AI data center in West Virginia
When investors get nervous about AI spending, it helps to have the chipmaker that sells the chips offer to cosign the loan.
Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
Boom’s airliner may be delayed, and its data center power business lost a customer.
Sam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your desk
Asked about supply chain shortages, like the ongoing RAM shortage, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that it's "terrible" to have RAM in personal PCs instead of data centers. During his appearance on the Cheeky Pint podcast, where he also commented on AI's impact on math, Altman said: "A lot of people want […]
Run AI Models for Edge Application Development with Just a Few Commands
AI is expanding beyond the data center as developers build a new generation of agents to act at the edge: monitoring driver attention and cabin conditions,...
Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry
The first TPU in space is a running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writing cheesy poetry.
Can AI data centers be mass-produced like cars? This startup aims to find out
Runware is building a factory to turn out prefabricated AI data centers on an assembly line. The real test will be whether it can deliver at that scale.
Maine’s data center revolt will decide who controls the Senate
Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican, was midway through defending her record during the final debate of the midterms when an audience member cut her short. "I'm terrified," a man shouted. "AI data centers are destroying our climate. They are poisoning our water." Collins brushed off the outburst, tying the man to her Democratic challenger, […]
3 Questions: Why infrastructure is entering a defining era
Professor Ali Jadbabaie describes how AI, digital transformation, climate change, and complex geopolitics are forcing engineers and policymakers to rethink how infrastructure is designed, built, and managed.
Oracle brings Google’s TPUs to its cloud, adds ChatGPT integrations
Oracle Corp. today announced plans to make Google LLC’s TPU artificial intelligence accelerators available through its public cloud. The initiative marks the first time the search giant is supplying the chips to another hyperscaler. According to CNBC, Oracle will also add Cerebras Systems Inc.’s wafer-scale accelerators and OpenAI Group PBC’s Jalapeño inference processor. The latter […] The post Oracle brings Google’s TPUs to its cloud, adds ChatGPT integrations appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
The data center boom has an upside: innovation for the US grid
As the AI boom stresses the existing power grid, all sort of new opportunities for grid modernization are also emerging as a result, industry insiders say.
Data center expansion has sparked local opposition across the United States, making it a key issue in the 2026 midterm elections.
According to a report by The Verge on October 27, 2026, communities across the United States have mounted widespread opposition to the large-scale construction of data centers and the soaring costs of associated infrastructure, with this issue deeply entangled in numerous congressional and gubernatorial races. Tech capital is accelerating its entry into the fray: the super PAC “Leading the Future,” backed by Marc Andreessen and Greg Brockman, has already spent $45 million within a year, while “Public First Action,” supported by Anthropic, has also joined the effort.
Anthropic is burning gas to feed the AI boom
As it prepares to go public, Anthropic's S-1 filing makes generative AI's methane dependency glaringly obvious. "Competition for access to electrical supply and data center locations with adequate power availability is intense." In documents filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission Monday, Anthropic acknowledges that data centers are becoming increasingly reliant on "natural gas" […]
At New York Climate Week 2026, MIT connects with a global network
A cross-section of the MIT community convened discussions on topics ranging from data centers and super pollutants to agriculture and education.
Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’
The footage looks okay, as long as you're not seeking artistry, inspiration, or human interest.
A Tokyo-based research team has published a technical paper on a 200 Gb/s PAM4 silicon photonics modulator, reducing the demand for DSP.
The Tokyo Institute of Science, Yokohama National University, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and the Photonics and Electronics Technology Research Association (PETRA) jointly published a paper in Nature Communications, reporting a slow-light silicon modulator with an integrated electro-optic equalizer that achieves a single-wavelength 200 Gb/s PAM4 data rate while significantly reducing digital signal processing (DSP) overhead.
Infineon renews its partnership with Wolfspeed: the “next hurdle” for 200mm silicon carbide
Competition in the silicon carbide industry will further intensify at the materials and manufacturing stages.
Global Experiences That the U.S. Anti-Data-Center Movement Can Learn From: From Ireland’s Grid Crisis to New Zealand’s Community AI Initiatives
In his book “Hyper-Scale,” Paris Marx traces the history of resistance within global data centers, noting that Ireland imposed a ban due to grid capacity saturation, prompting companies to build their own gas-fired power plants; meanwhile, New Zealand is exploring a non-exploitative AI pathway by leveraging local cloud services to support Māori-language speech recognition; and the wave of opposition currently sweeping the United States is, in fact, a reenactment of long‑foreseen global tensions.